Four held for selling weapons through social media.

KARACHI -- The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has claimed to have arrested four arms dealers allegedly involved in supply of arms to young people, criminals and terrorists in Karachi.

CTD official Raja Umer Khattab said that the inter-provincial arms dealers - Azmatullah, Bashir Khan, Fazal Jan and Farmanullah - were arrested in different areas of the city.

'Arms dealers and shopkeepers of Peshawar, Darra Adamkhel, Dera Ismail Khan and other districts were involved in smuggling of arms whose modes operandi was to publicise the arms dealing through Facebook and Whatsapp groups,' he said.

He said interested buyers contacted them through Whatsapp groups where price of the weapon of their choice was...