Police register FIR against Shahzain Bugti

An FIR was registered against president of the Balochistan chapter of Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Shahzain Bugti and his several personal guards for keeping illegal arms, a private TV reported on Thursday. Earlier on Wednesday, paramilitary troops arrested Shahzain Bugti, a grandson of the late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, after finding a huge quantity of illegal arms and ammunition in the vehicles of his convoy coming from the border town of Chaman. The arms and ammunition recovered from the 16 smuggled vehicles included 50 SMGs, 4 LMGs, two 12.7mm AA guns, two 14.2 mm AA guns, one SPG-9, one 9mm pistol, one AUG, 46,000 rounds of SMG, 1,600 rounds of 12.7/14.5, 570 rounds of AUG, 880 rounds of sniper rifle, 39 rounds of 9mm pistol, 17 mobile phones and 16 vehicles.

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