Overview
- The interior ministry told a press conference on Wednesday that an intelligence-based operation traced and arrested a man known as Zia and that the operation “captured” an organised arms-and-crime network tied to the proscribed Joint Awami Action Committee.
- Officials played phone-call audio they said showed Zia discussing weapons supplies with an associate named Majid and an Afghanistan-based supplier called Zarshad and said investigators recovered mobile and location data from suspects.
- Authorities alleged weapons were moved from Afghan cities into Pakistan via Bara and that a government employee identified as Akbar used his institutional cover to transport consignments into Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
- The ministry said the network also handled smuggling of vehicles, petrol and narcotics, and framed the findings as support for the JAAC ban that Azad Jammu and Kashmir imposed in June.
- All claims are official allegations under ongoing investigation with no reported convictions so far, and the government said the case will feed further intelligence-based operations that it says number about 200 daily.