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India-Pakistan
Police officials, smugglers arrested in Balochistan arms scam
2015-01-03
[DAWN] Police officials involved in selling thousands of bullet rounds and other weapons to smugglers have been locked away
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province.

Police officials deployed at Balochistan Constabulary's arsenal depot sold out 750,000 rounds of SMGs and other weapons in Quetta during last few years.

?We have detained six police officials and four smugglers in connection with weapons sale,? Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Quetta, Razzaq Cheema told a presser on Friday.

He said that the accused set the arsenal depot of police on fire to conceal their robbery. They sold out Rs35's bullet from Rs100 to Rs150 in open market between 2011 and 2014, he added.

Cheema stated that an inquiry was ordered by the commandant Balochistan Constabulary after fire was reported from weapons depot.

Police officials and weapon smugglers earned millions of rupees through the sale of police department's weapons in the open market. Hitherto, low level police officials have been arrested and officers are yet to be arrested, Cheema said.

When asked about sale of weapons to snuffies and criminals, the CCPO said, ?Possibility of selling weapons to miscreants cannot be ruled out?.

The CCPO said that a case was also registered against the accused involved in stealing official weapons. ?All robbers would be punished as per law,? he assured, saying that security of police arsenals was tightened in the aftermath of the robbery.
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