Gang selling illegal arms licenses, weapons busted in Karachi

KARACHI: Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) on Wednesday claimed to have arrested nine suspects involved in creating and selling counterfeit arms licenses as well as illegal weapons, ARY News reported.

The arrested men include five arms dealers, police and Frontier Corps (FC) personnel.

Deputy Inspector General (DIG) CIA Arif Haneef said the suspects were arrested during a ‘sting operation’ from different areas in Karachi and added that weapons made in the US were also recovered from their possession.

He said the US made weapons were smuggled from Afghanistan in Karachi. Haneef said that a police constable Saeed Nawaz allegedly took information from the arms dealers about the buyers and passed on the details to the gang.

The counterfeiter arms licenses were being sold in Peshawar, Balochistan, erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and other areas.

The CIA officer said that the operation was conducted on a tip-off that the suspects were involved in providing weapons to miscreants.

The gang has created and sold thousands of fake arms licences so far, he concluded.