Peshawar, June 23: Pakistani security forces raided the home of an Afghan refugee in a remote village in the Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border and seized 21 Russian-made missiles, a government official said today. The refugee's home was raided yesterday in Kurram tribal area after authorities received intelligence information about the weapons cache, said Kifayatullah Khan, a government official in Parachinar, the administrative centre of Kurram.
No arrest was made and the afghan refugee had fled the Kharlachi village by apparently crossing over to Afghanistan, Khan said. The village is located less than a kilometer from the Afghan border and people in the tribal region routinely move across the porous frontier between the two countries.
Pakistani authorities routinely seize weapons in the semiautonomous region. It is one of the places intelligence officials believe Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants may be using as a hideout. Parachinar is located about 200 kms southwest of the provincial capital of Peshawar. In the Momand tribal region, northwest of Peshawar, Pakistani Army troops have been deployed along the Afghan border to prevent Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives from slipping in. Bureau Report