November 5, 2001	Monday	haba’an 18, 1422

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Nov 4: Police arrested three carjackers and seized two vehicles from their possession on Saturday.

On a tip-off that some carjackers would bring to the district cars for sale, the Cantt police erected barricades on Dera-Darya Khan Road near Basti Dhapanwali.

Two cars (IDK-628 & LXJ-5785), coming from Punjab, were stopped, bearing fake number plates. The police seized some bunches of keys of Toyota cars and Suzuki vans, but found no legal documents of the two cars.

Three occupants of the cars, named as Mohammad Aslam, Mohammad Iqbal and Mehr Akbar, hailing from Multan and Vehari, were arrested.

They confessed to the police that they had hijacked the cars in the Punjab province. The police registered a case against them.

ARRESTED: The district police, in its drive against anti-social elements, arrested 31 proclaimed offenders, including robbers and killers, during October.

Four Kalashnikovs, three rifles, six shotguns, 22 pistols, four daggers and 485 rounds of different prohibited bores were seized. The police also seized 3.924kg hashish, 880gm opium, 125gm heroin, 285gm bhang and four bottles of liquor in the last month.