Pakistani police arrests four suspected terrorists

Islamabad, Jun 9 (UNI) Pakistan's police today arrested six alleged terrorists of a banned religious outfit and recovered huge cache of weapons and explosives from their custody in Rahim Yar Khan city of the country's Punjab province.

Official Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) quoted a local police official Ahsan Mehmood as saying that the suspected terrorists belonged to the radical Sunni outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), who were planning terror attacks in the city.

LJ was among one of several militant outfits, which were banned by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in January 2002, almost a month after joining the US-led international coalition in the war against terror.

The police raided house of a local resident Muhammad Shaaban Chachar in Rahim Yar Khan and arrested the criminals while their five other accomplices managed to flee.

The police recovered three detonating belts, training literature, bomb making material, a Kalashnikov, four pistols, one revolver and a huge quantity of bullets from their possession.

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