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Plot to smuggle surveillance balloon to Iran foiled

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KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Interior on Thursday said security forces had prevented the smuggling of a surveillance balloon to Iran and arrested one person in connection with the plot.

The ministry in a video clip posted on its Twitter account said that the detainee, Mustafa, was from Gizab district of Uruzgan and wanted to smuggle a surveillance balloon left from US forces, to Iran in connivance with another person named Ali Reza.

Mustafa Fard, the detainee, talking in the video clip, said, “I said it is not mine, I do not own it, this is not mine. He (Ali . . .

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