Police intercepted and apprehended a truck laden with weapons and ammunition on the Super Highway on Tuesday. The weapons were intended to be used on Youm-e-Ali.
SSP South Nasir Aftab said that the police had been tipped off that a truck was bringing arms and ammunition from Mardan to Karachi.
His team conducted a search operation on Super Highway to catch the suspected truck and recovered a large amount of ammunition, including six sub-machine guns, one light machine gun and thousands of bullets, belts, butts, daggers and other arms.
No explosive material was found on board the truck, though.
The weapons were hidden in wooden sections specially constructed for the purpose in the the upper compartments of the truck. The vehicle was otherwise empty.
Aftab further said that the police had arrested two suspects and investigations in this regard were underway.
