| KARACHI: The SITE town police seized a big quantity of explosive materials, including detonators, on Friday and arrested two men. The town police officer (TPO) of SITE town, Imran Shaukat, speaking at a press conference in his office, said the total quantity of the explosive materials recovered was 180kg. He said the police raided a house in Saeed Goth in Saeedabad police limits at 3:30pm on Friday and arrested two men, Wasif, aged 32, and Gul Rahim, aged 33, and recovered 180 kgs of explosives, including plastic explosives weighing 28kg in plate shapes to be strapped to jackets used in suicide bombing, ammonium nitrate weighing 150kg, 10 detonators and 150 metres of fuse wire. The TPO said the men arrested were Pakhtoons from Balochistan. âThey sold explosives and arms to various organisations, including banned religious outfits and terrorist groups. They had been doing this business in Karachi for the past 3-4 years and it is likely they sold the explosives that were used in some high-profile cases,â he said. |