1,650 anti-tank mines, 480 hand grenades and 2524 kilograms of explosive material was recovered. PHOTO: ONLINE
The two factories have been shut down following the operation.
Inspector General Frontier Corps (IGFC) Major General Ijaz Shahid and Commander Southern Command Lt Gen Nasser Khan Janjua said during a press conference that the FC on a tip off raised a terrorist hideout in the mountainous area of Tuba Achakzai Tehsil, near Afghan border.
The FC seized 1650 anti-personnel mines, 480 hand grenades, 2524 kilograms of explosive materials, seven suicide jackets, IEDs, remote control devices and other arms and ammunition.
In addition, five kilogrammes of ball bearings as well as 17,500 explosive sticks and 23 rockets were seized during the operation.
“The maps of Balochistan, Pakistan and world were recovered during the operation,” IG FC said, adding that they wanted to target Quetta and other districts of Balochistan or Pakistan.
Modern laboratories were found in both factories where they were experimenting with explosives and chemicals.
Janjua said this was a major accomplishment of the FC who have foiled a terror threat and saved countless innocent lives.
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Well done Frontier Constabulary.May Allah give you many more success like this to bring peace in Baluchistan and Pakistan, Ameen.
@Lala Gee: So are you saying that the TTP/Taliban/Al Qaeda must be entirely made up of "Non-Muslims" since (according to you) no Muslim could have been involved in the countless terrorist attacks in Pakistan that have probably killed more than 30,000 Muslims over the past decade!
great ! but we are yet to go to the root in order to STOP in-flow....why it is not done is a big question ?
@samir:
The huge arms is the evidence that India is involved! No Muslim of Pakistan will hurt another fellow Pakistani
Seems like the new general may be reanalyzing the net benefits of these so called assets. The support has always been internal. Lets not fool ourselves.
@Grace: Please get your facts straight! Chuck Hagel was NOT Defense Secretary when that statement was attributed to him around a decade ago!
The Afghans probably help the people who construct these factories. Deport ALL Afghans from Pakistan.
Good job by the Frontier Corps!!!
@samir: It is already known that India uses Afghanistan as a base to further this criminal activity in Pakistan. Remember the US Defense Secretary Chucvk Hagel saying that India was working from Afghanistan to cause mischief in Pakistan. Great work by the FC to shut down these cowards who target civilians to please foreign masters!
"Modern laboratories" are enough to suggest that US, UK or India are definitely behind them. terrorists just want the material and use it, they are not interested in experimentation with those.
Was anyone arrested?? Why don't they publicly ever disclose who was behind all this??
Well done for sure but no comment on the number of terrorist caught or they all escaped to plan new factories . Any ways , am fervently hoping all were caught with their bosses .
@samir: No brother! We ourselves trained them along with CIA back in the 70's and 80's. Yes Indian funding via indirect sources cannot be igonored. But let me share my perspective if ET ever allows this to be published I remember how Israel made weapons were smuggled to Egypt and then transferred to our brave (yet ignorant) mujahideen. (Watch Charlie Wison's war) Jihad is done by your own "maal" and your own "jaan". And the jaan, is not limited to me, my son or your family member only. The jaan supposed to be leading the front is of the leader! In our case the leader and their sons were way way back somewhere is Islamabad or Riyad. And the maal coming in, was of the Jew in the form of weaponry, technology and trainings. We openly use the name of our religion for such open violations and yet expect Allah will grant us mercy. No wonder what we are facing today is HIS wrath in the form of TTP and its allies. We fought a war against the Russians and were allies to the US. Plain and simple. And we are doing the same. When we call that and today's war againt terror, a jihad we must know what we are saying because Jihade Badar was also a jihad of 313 unarmed men against a 1000 troops on horse backs! That was Jihad!! When we use religion for our own motives and as a nation believe in what we are doing is always right, our doom starts. May ALLAH guide us as a nation so that sensible leaders are born amongst us. Not some industrialists or a mulla or a capitalist educated fascist that we gladly import from Europe
@samir: India is certainly not involved. Yes, one can assume that RAW will plan the break up of Pakistan, but its wont happen unless the people of Pakistan will; no foreigner help can assemble soo many weapons without local support. Islam is not a common thread, that weak thread has all died long ago, just like the oldest of you all..Zorastrians.The story will thus continue, there is and was only 1 India, but there were and will be many Pakistans & China's & Europes..so on and so forth.
@samir: So you want somebody to prove a negative? Can you prove you had nothing to do with the drone attacks? Try proving it and you'll have an idea what I am referring to.
A good chance that the money came from our "friends" the Saudis. The Saudis have helped to overthrow a legit govt in Egypt, caused chaos in Syria, sided with the Israelis against Iran, backed nutcases in Pakistan and Afghanistan and generally caused chaos in the muslim world in a desperate attempt to spread whabbism. Remind again who the real enemies are?
Now you should know why Baluchistan have the highest number of missing persons in the list! not that I approve of such measures.
@samir:
Classic conspiracy theory nonsense - blame everything on the boogeyman and accept no responsibility for the terrorism that emanate from Pakistan. Why would India sponsor bomb making factories to be used against USA/NATO/Afghan troops? Why would the USA be silent about it?
These bomb factories should be destroyed. There is no mention of any arrests. The workers, the owners, the customers and the financiers should all be traced and dealt with firmly. There should be operation in North Waziristan as well so that the Taliban are derived of these deadly devices.
@samir: Who needs India when 2 of the worlds biggest arms manufacturing countries poured unimaginable amount of these stuff In Afghanistan over the past 3 decades. And unless you have noticed, Chaman is a bordering city with Afghanistan and the borders are not so impenetrable ;)
@samir India is your enemy country..If you think for one second that they will not try to do everything in their power to hurt you.. you need to rethink that stance.
When faced with an enemy.. any intellegent person will defend itself knowing that fact.. Unfortunately here in Pakistan we except our enemies to just STOP Harming us while we continue our campaigns against them,
India will try to destablize Pakistan every chance it gets..what we need to do is work our best to protect ourselves and stop the internal issues..that is the best thing we can do to stop India
Convince me that India is not involved. Such quantities cannot be assembled without external provisions and support. And I am sure they were not stored for fun.
Great work!!!. Shows that our institutions, fully supported and then left alone to do their duties, can deliver!