Pakistan on Thursday arrested five Baloch Republican Army (BRA) activists on charges of terrorism with police claiming that it foiled their bid to blow up a railway track in Punjab province.

According to Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officials, it received a tip-off that some BRA had planted IED on a railway track in Rajanpur, nearly 400 km from Lahore.

A CTD team reached the spot and arrested five men and recovered cash, two pistols and explosives from their possession.

Brahamdagh Khan Bugti, the founder of the BRA, was financing these "terrorists" from abroad, CTD officials said.

They have been identified as Hussain Bakhsh, Bagga Reesh, Bakhsh Balach, Rahem Ali and Mujahid Din Mojoo. 

(With PTI inputs)