 Afghan forces have uncovered 40 technicals pick-up truckloads of weapons, said to belong to Taliban insurgents, that were hidden in mountain caves near the border with Pakistan, a military general said on Tuesday. The cache included machine guns, rockets and explosives, and was found this week in eastern Paktika provinceÂ’s Gomal district, some 40 kilometres from the border, army general Samiul Haq told AFP.
| Gee that's awfully close to the border. Wonder how they got there, and from where they came? |
The general said some of the weapons appeared to have been deposited recently while others may have been put there “a long time ago”. “But there is no doubt it is a Taliban weapons cache. Taliban had control over it,” the general said. Intelligence reports led the troops to the discovery, he said. He was not more precise about the quantity of weapons except to say they would fill 40 battlewagons four-by-four pick-up trucks. |