Pakistan seizes huge arms cache near Afghan border

Pakistani authorities seized a huge cache of arms this morning near the border with Afghanistan but made no arrests, an official said.

The raid took place about 124 miles south of Peshawar, capital of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), in a semi-autonomous tribal area.

Among the mortar shells, remote-controlled mines, missile fuses and mortar guns were 99 Russian missiles and about 64 guns of every variety conceivable.

Guns and ammunition are easily available in the rugged NWFP hinterland of steepling mountainous countryside which is thought to have provided an easy route out of Afghanistan for escaping remnants of the hardline Taliban regime ousted late in 2001.

AP