ATTOCK: Attock Police have foiled an attempt to smuggle a huge quantity of arms and ammunition and arrested a member of an inter-provincial gang of arms smugglers at the Attock Khurd check post on Tuesday.
According to a police spokesman, a team of police led by Sub-Inspector Khanzada Sheroze, acting on a tip-off, intercepted
a car on GT road coming from Peshawar and recovered a total of 21 pistols of 30-bore, 3 pistols of 9-MM, one Kalashnikov, and 720 bullets of different weapons from hidden compartments in the car.
A police spokesman has said that during the preliminary interrogation, the suspect identified as Muhammad Hamza, a native of district Nowshera, has confessed that he is a member of an inter-provincial racket of arms smugglers and was smuggling weapons from KP to Punjab.
A case was registered against the suspect, and the police launched further investigation.