KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) officials on Saturday apprehended a suspect from Hub River Road who was allegedly involved in supplying arms and ammunition in the city.
A CTD spokesperson in a statement claimed that the accused, identified as Zahid, brought a large cache of arms to Karachi. He claimed that the law-enforcers recovered a total of eight 9mm pistols, four 30-bore pistols, and hundreds of live bullets from the possession of the arrested individual.
Meanwhile, the accused during the interrogation revealed that the two accused, named Shahrukh and Waqar from Mansehra, supplied arms to him. Last year, the CTD of the Sindh police had busted an online arms dealers gang that was operating from Malaysia.
The CTD nabbed two suspected members of an online arms dealers gang during a raid in Karachi’s Korangi area. The spokesperson said that the head of the gang namely Rashaan is operating the gang from Malaysia.
The arrested gang members including Faisal alias Kodu and Mohsin were involved in online smuggling of weapons from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Peshawar or Nowshera cities to Karachi.
