Arms cache found buried at MQM-London’s unit office: Rangers

The Sindh Rangers claimed to have recovered a sizeable weapons cache that was buried at the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London’s (MQM-L) unit office in Sector 5-J, New Karachi.

As per details, during a visit of Sindh Rangers Director General (DG) Major General Muhammad Saeed to the Sachal Rangers on Thursday, Sachal Rangers Sector Commander Brigadier Pervez Naseem briefed the DG Rangers about a successful operation conducted by the paramilitary force in Sector 5-J, New Karachi.

Brigadier Naseem told the DG Rangers that the paramilitary force had recovered the weapons and ammunition from the MQM-London’s Unit Number 138.

The sector commander said the MQM-L had planned to use the recovered arms and ammunition to carry out targeted killings and disrupt the city’s peace.

The recovered weapons include two HE hand grenades, one 7mm rifle, one 12-bore pump action, one 30-bore mini-machine gun, one 38-bore revolver, one .22 pistol along with magazines, three 9mm pistol with magazines, two SMGs with magazines, 20 30-bore pistols with magazines, three 8mm rifles with magazines and 146 rounds of different types.

The Rangers chief lauded the Sachal Rangers for carrying out the successful operation.

It is pertinent to mention here that this was the paramilitary force’s 12th raid in 2017 for the recovery of buried weapons and ammunition in the city.

In its first raid of the year, the Rangers recovered a weapons cache from a house near the Khursheed Memorial Hall on March 2. More such raids were conducted on March 13 in New Karachi, on March 21 at Go Aish Park Gulshan-e-Iqbal, on May 5 in Musharraf Colony, on May 11 in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, on August 25 in Lyari, on September 29 in Orangi Town, on September 30 in Paposh Nagar, twice in Memon Goth on October 13 and October 15, on October 16 in Liaquatabad and in Orangi Town on October 28.