PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Eight Afghan refugees have been detained in different areas of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province,
The arrests came in a string of raids by the Frontier Corps (FC) on Friday -- days after a suicide bomber killed seven people in the provincial capital.
On Tuesday, seven people including five Balochistan Constabulary personnel were killed after a bomber struck a security forces’ truck near the Balochistan Assembly.
A statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday: “Balochistan FC conducted intelligence-based operations] in Sambaza, Sibbi and Hazar Ganji areas.”
Weapons and ammunition including grenades, improvised explosive devices, rockets and explosives were recovered in the operations, the army’s media wing said.
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