Attempt to smuggle US-made weapons from Afghanistan failed: Pakistan Customs

According to Pakistani customs officials, an attempt to smuggle US-made weapons worth millions of rupees in a coal truck from Afghanistan at the Torkham border has been foiled.

Torkham Customs Assistant Commissioner Umar Jan told Independent Urdu that the truck was entering Pakistan from Afghanistan on Sunday and when it was inspected, US-made war weapons were found in it.

He said that this weapon was used in the US war in Afghanistan, in which 15 new M4 automatic rifle barrels, 170 magazines and 5000 rounds of M4 223 ram cartridges were recovered, worth about three and a half million Pakistani rupees. It is Rs.

Umar Jan said about the operation that ‘usually such smuggling happens at night and when we get suspicious, we start checking the vehicle by putting it on the side.’

However, according to Umar Jan, boxes were made for weapons in the coal truck in which he was hidden, but when the driver suspected that the vehicle was about to be checked, he managed to escape.

According to customs officials: ‘It was a private contractor’s truck carrying coal from Afghanistan Pakistan was bringing We want three persons in this case of smuggling, efforts are on to arrest them and soon they will be brought to book.

Torkham border Pakistan and Afghanistan There is a major trade corridor between Afghanistan and Pakistan to Afghanistan.

Even in the past Torkham At the border, the smuggling of arms into similar goods has been thwarted, including US-made warheads Weapons was caught

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In December last year too, a day after an attack on a security forces camp in Dera Ismail Khan, a large consignment of US-made weapons including an M4 rifle and a night vision Google was seized at Torkham. 23 security personnel were killed in this attack.

Former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief Akhtar Ali Shah told Independent Urdu about arms smuggling that arms smuggling increases militarization or militancy in any region.

The former IG police said that ‘there is a need to stop the smuggling of US-made weapons from Afghanistan because it is harmful to the peace of the region.’

Regarding border management and preventing this type of smuggling, Akhtar Ali Shah said that Afghanistan and Pakistan should strengthen border management together.

According to him: “All countries at the Shanghai Cooperation Conference should urge Afghanistan to put in place mechanisms to stop this type of trafficking so that it does not threaten the peace of the region.”

An arms dealer in Peshawar, on condition of anonymity, told Independent Urdu that all types of American-made weapons are available in the illegal arms market in Peshawar and other areas, including Dara Adam Khel.

He said that these weapons are illegally smuggled from Afghanistan and sold here in the illegal markets of Pakistan.

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