Pakistani tries to smuggle bomb detonating equipment onto plane

May 10, 2010 by legitgov

Pakistani tries to smuggle bomb detonating equipment onto plane 09 May 2010 Pakistani police officers arrested a man at Karachi airport on Sunday after he was found to be carrying batteries and a circuit board in his shoe. The man, who had planned to travel to Muscat on a Thai Airways flight, told police he was from the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where Taliban and Islamist militants are known to have a large presence. Faiz Mohammad, a civil engineer, was arrested when an airport scanner sounded an alarm due to the foreign objects in his shoes.