Rangers dig up huge cache of weapons hidden in park

Paramilitary soldiers found a huge cache of weapons buried in a Gulshan-e-Iqbal park on Tuesday.

The spokesman for the Sindh Rangers said the discovery was made during an intelligence-based raid on the Go Aish Adventure Park situated near the Safari Park.

He alleged that the weapons had been buried in the store room of the park by Inbasath Malik, son-in-law of Mohammad Anwar, a leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London Secretariat.

Among the weapons found were a light machine gun, 16 submachine guns, two repeater rifles, six 7mm rifles with two magazines, three 223-bore rifles with 10 magazines, two M-16, an MP-5, one Push Pasaha and a 30-bore pistol. 

Four hand grenades, 10 ball bombs, one telescope sight, 20,300 bullets of SMG with 25 magazines, 540 bullets of G-3, 135 bullets of 222 bore, 62 rounds of repeater, 80 rounds of LMG, 96 rounds of the 9mm pistol, 240 bullets of 223 bore, 50 bullets of 44 bore and 50 bullets of a 30-bore pistol were also seized in the raid.

Weapons were meant to be used by the group to create terrorism and uncertainty in the city, the spokesman said, adding that a case would be lodged and action would be taken under the Sindh Arms Act.