SADIQABAD: Amid ongoing anti-terror raids across the country, the security forces have arrested two truck drivers for allegedly smuggling explosives into Pakistan under the garb of Afghan transit trade during a raid in Sona Chowk area of Sadiqabad city.
The law enforcement personnel identified the drivers as Sakhi Badshah and Rasool Nawaz y belonging to Wana town of South Waziristan Agency, who have close links with the terrorist groups.
The Afghanistan–Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement is a bilateral trade agreement between the two countries. The treaty, signed in 1950, gave Afghanistan the right to import duty-free goods through Karachi. It allows Afghanistan access to the dry port of Lahore, and also access to a land route up to the Wagah border with India.
The development comes three days after Pakistan Army announced the launch of Operation Radd-ul-Fassad (elimination of discord), a nationwide anti-terrorist operation, days after a series of terrorist attacks claimed lives of more than 100 people across the country.
Troops and police have been on high alert after last week’s wave of attacks, including one on Mall Road in Lahore and another on Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Shrine in Sindh province, killed more than 100 people.
