Rangers recover weapons hidden by ‘MQM-London members’ in Karachi

KARACHI (PPI): Rangers recovered on Saturday a huge cache of weapons during a raid in Karachi’s Orangi area.

According to Rangers, the Muttahida Quami Movement-London members hid the weapons in three rooms present at the back of a public park.

During the raid, Rangers personnel recovered machine guns, Kalashnikovs, rifles, two pistols and around 1,850 bullets of different kinds.

According to Rangers the weapons were to be used in incidents of terrorism and target-killing in Karachi.

In June, Pakistan Rangers Sindh had recovered a sizeable cache of arms and ammunition buries inside a well in Karachi’s Nazimabad no. 3.

Rangers had said in a statement that the weapons were hidden by miscreants affiliated with MQM-London before the start of the Karachi operation.

The recovered weapons included an RPG-7 rocket launcher, four RPG-7 shells, four 7mm rifles and four secondary fuses, the paramilitary force had said in a statement.