KARACHI: A local court of Judicial Magistrate Malir has remanded the US citizen, who was arrested from Karachi airport for carrying arms, in police custody till May 10, Geo News reported.
The Airport Security Force (ASF) had arrested a US national from the Karachi Airport on Monday for carrying a 9mm pistol and 15 bullets.
Joel Cox was scheduled to fly to Islamabad via flight No PK-308.
Airport police had registered case against Cox under Arms ordinance and presented him before the court of judicial magistrate Tuesday.
Malir SSP Rao Anwar said the bullets would be despatched for forensic testing. He said the serial numbers of the bullets had already been forwarded to a forensic laboratory.
The SSP said a joint investigation team was probing the case to ascertain where the suspect was from, for whom he was working and what his plans were regarding the pistol and the bullets. Cox has yet to provide the police with a licence for the pistol, he added.
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