Pakistani military forces thwarted a plot by a banned terrorist organization to carry out a major terrorist operation on the anniversary of Pakistan's Independence Day, which falls on August 14. The media department of the Pakistani army said in a statement today that a squad of paramilitaries carried out an operation in Balochistan province and confiscated a large quantity of weapons and explosives smuggled into the region to be used in the implementation of a large terrorist attack on a government goal in the province on the anniversary of independence day. The paramilitary forces found a secret stronghold of a terrorist organization and confiscated a number of weapons, including machine guns, bombs and explosives.
