Forces recover huge cache of arms in south Pakistan

Paramilitary troops recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition in Pakistan's southwest Chaman district on Monday morning, local media reported. Quoting unnamed sources from Paramilitary troops Frontier Corps (FC), local Urdu TV channel Samaa said that the forces seized a truck carrying explosive materials on an intelligence tip off in Chaman area, a district in the country's southwest Balochistan province. The explosives were being brought into the province from some unknown place, said the report. The troops recovered 170 bags of explosive materials, 200 remote controlled detonators and over 100 primacords from the custody of the militants. Another 45 bombs, 100 guns and 135 pistols were also recovered during the operation by FC, said the report. The sources from FC were quoted as saying that the militants were planning to take the lives of innocent and vulnerable people but the intelligence apparatus timely foiled their plans. The truck driver was arrested and shifted to some unknown place for investigations. Balochistan has been under the grip of violence for more than a decade. Militants including Taliban and separatist groups usually smuggle weapons from Afghanistan and use them in attacking people and blowing up gas pipelines, power pylons and railway tracks in the province.