Islamabad: The Pakistani police managed to foiled a massive plan of terrorism in Quetta and recovered a huge quantity of explosives material. According to DIG Investigation Mobeen Ahmed, on a tip-off given by the secret agencies, police searched a truck at Nawabi Gate near Kuchlak and recovered at least 80 sacks filled with potassium chloride, adding the explosive is two thousands kilograms in weight. He said it is a great success on the part of police team to have seized the explosives ahead of elections. The truck-driver is said to belong to Qila Abdullah, while the other terrorist belongs to Balochistan area of Gulistan. A case has been lodged against the terrorists, who are currently being interrogated.
20 rebels killed in Afghanistan
Kabul: More than 20 insurgents were killed in a joint operation in eastern Afghanistan, the Afghan and Nato military officials said here yesterday. Provincial government spokesman Din Mohammad Darwesh said the two-day operation that ended Tuesday night in Logar province also killed a local Taliban commander. He added that two civilians were wounded in Baraki Barak district. There were no immediate reports of Afghan or international forces deaths. The Nato said in a statement that the troops killed 24 insurgents as part of the operation that rescued two captured Afghan soldiers. Afghan officials gave varying numbers of 23 to 26 militants killed.
British soldier dies in blast
Kabul: British defence officials announced a British soldier was killed when a suspected suicide car bomber attacked a patrol base in Afghanistan. The soldier, from the 1st Battalion of the Mercian Regiment (Cheshire), was one of 10 UK troops injured in the blast in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province, media reports said.
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