AMRITSAR: Pakistan is according to Indian newspapers has supplied large quantity of most powerful antitank plastic land mines besides other arms and ammunitions to freedom fighters in the northern states of Punjab and Kashmir, Indian police official said here Friday.
Deputy inspector general border range G.L.S. Bhullar said two such mines with capacity to shatter a seventy ton tank to pieces were seized in the Khem Karan Indo Pakistan border area Thursday.
He the mines seized could be considered as the most powerful in the world, which army experts described as totally no detective.
He said the powerful mines were part of consignments of huge quantity of other explosives, bombs, rockets and powerful 99 channel wireless sets besides arms and ammunition which Pakistan reported to have supplied to nationalists recent months.
Bhullar said three men of the Khalistan Commando Force faction led by the panthic committee member, Wassan Singh Zafarwal, who were arrested while transporting the consignment from the border on Tuesday night, were being interrogated to find out the destination of these mines.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 9, 1990
