An anti-terrorism court in Gilgit-Baltistan region of PoK has sentenced a Chinese national to nine years imprisonment for trying to smuggle weapons from Pakistan to China.
The court also imposed a ban on the Chinese man, Wang Jiangquo, from visiting Pakistan again.
On May 24, the Khunjrab Security Force (KSF) personnel had arrested the Chinese citizen from Khunjrab National Park area of Hunza district near the China-Pakistan border for allegedly trying to smuggle arms and ammunition to China.
A case was registered against the Chinese national under the anti-terrorism law and he was shifted to Giglit for investigation, the Dawn reported.
The Chinese man had arrived in Islamabad from China in the first week of May on a one-month visa. He then travelled by bus to Aliabad, Hunza, from where he reached Sost. In Sost he hired a taxi and went to the Khunjrab National Park, police said.
The taxi driver had told local police that Wang had asked him to slowly move forward while he took photographs in the National Park. When the Chinese citizen did not return, the driver got worried and informed the nearby checkpost officials. The officials along with policemen combed the area and found the man near a glacier.
On search of his bag the police officials found four pistols, 200 bullets, a map, compass and binoculars.
The police shifted him to Sost town where a case was registered against him under the anti-terrorism law. He was later shifted to Gilgit for investigation.
During the investigation, the suspect confessed to his crime of trying to smuggle four pistols and ammunition across the border.
Hearing the case, Gilgit ATC judge Shahbaz Khan also asked the Punjab inspector general of police to take action against the arms dealer who sold four pistols and hundreds of bullets to the foreigner.
