Overview
- The interior minister said security agencies ‘captured’ the network after an intelligence-based operation that began with the arrest of a man named Zia on September 16, 2026.
- Officials played audio of phone calls and cited mobile-phone data they say link Zia to local figures named Majid and Sardar Aman and to an Afghan supplier called Zarshad.
- The minister alleged a government employee identified as Akbar used institutional cover to move weapons from Bara in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
- Authorities said the same network also handled smuggling of vehicles, petrol and narcotics, and that roughly 200 daily intelligence-based operations are under way as investigations continue.
- The government framed the revelations as evidence for the June 5 proscription of the Joint Awami Action Committee, but the claims and the materials shown at the press conference have not been independently verified or produced in court.