Huge weapon cache discovered in NE. Afghan province

Security forces have discovered a huge weapon cache in Faizabad, the capital of peaceful Badakhshan province in northeast Afghanistan, spokesman for the provincial administration Abdul Marouf Rasikh said Tuesday.

"Containing 296 mortar rounds, 108 mortar fuses, 23 artillery shells, nine boxes of heavy machine gun magazines and 12 fuses of 28 mm shells, the weapon cache was discovered on Monday in Yaftal village outside the provincial capital Faizabad," Rasikh told Xinhua.

No one has been arrested so far in this case, Rasiksh added.

Taliban militants whose regime was toppled by a U.S. led military campaign in late 2001, have been attempting to infiltrate from their traditional hotbed in the southern region to the peaceful northern provinces of Afghanistan.

Source: Xinhua