Bid to filch Mughal-era antiquities foiled
Security army explain to have arrested a handful of men. PHOTO: FILE
LANDI KOTAL: Security army on Friday claimed to have arrested a handful of group who were allegedly perplexing to filch Mughal-era antiquities, value millions of rupees, into Afghanistan.
A internal confidence central told The Express Tribune that confidence officials, including officials from a Khasadar forces, stopped a automobile during a Landi Kotal check-post early on Friday morning for slight checking.
In a car, Afghan inhabitant Ala Ali pronounced that he was streamer to Afghanistan. There were several briefcases in a behind of his car.
Suspecting that a container looked too heavy, a confidence officials asked him to open it adult for inspection.
Ali, however, allegedly attempted to cheat a confidence crew during a check post in a bid to skip a search. But when a confidence army insisted and non-stop a bags, they found several Mughal-era antiques inside.
Ali was subsequently arrested for smuggling.
Later a Assistant Political Agent of Landi Kotal Niaz Muhammad displayed a recovered equipment before a media.
He pronounced that these antiquities are smuggled into Afghanistan before being smuggled into a European Union where they are sole on a black market.
He asked a archaeology dialect to check a recovered artefacts and establish their stress to a story of a region.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 7th, 2017.
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