Pakistani Paramilitary Soldiers Seize Huge Cache Of Weapons In Orangi Town

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers, on Wednesday seized a huge cache of weapons that include sub-machine guns, light-machine guns (LMG), rockets, pistols, rifles and bullets in a shop raid in Orangi Town meant to create unrest in the city.

The spokesman for the Sindh Rangers, which has been spearheading a targeted crackdown on terrorists, target killers, kidnappers and extortionists in September 2013, thenews quoted unnamed soldiers who conducted an intelligence-based operation near a sector office of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and discovered a huge cache of weapons and ammunition.

The weapons and ammunition, which were said to have been hidden in secret cavities at a shop that was next to the office, included three submachine guns, three 8mm rifles, four 7mm rifles, a 22-bore rifle, a 30-bore rifle, a 30-bore mouser, a 12-bore repeater, three 30-bore pistols, two 32-bore pistols, 10 RPG-7 rockets, 12 RPG-7 Premier rockets, 1840 G-3 bullets, 12,960 bullets of SMGs, 8,250 bullets of the LMG, 34 rounds of the 22-bore rifle, 48 shells of the 12-bore rifle.