In an operation, paramilitary Rangers, in collaboration with police, apprehended two suspects involved in arms smuggling. The accused, identified as Mukhtiar and Khan Pervaiz, were transporting a large cache of illegal arms and ammunition from Peshawar to Sukkur, Moro, Hyderabad and Karachi.
The joint operation conducted on the Karachi-Sukkur bypass resulted in the seizure of a 4.223 bore rifle, one 8mm rifle, a Kalashnikov, 9mm pistols, five 30 bore pistols, 1,000 bullets and 28 magazines of various weapons. The weapons were cleverly concealed in secret boxes of a coach. The owner of the coach, Thabit Khan, was suspected to be the mastermind behind the smuggling operation. The coach was also impounded.