RAWALPINDI, Dec 11: Some daredevil thieves have stolen telephone cables of the heavily guarded exchange of the general headquarters (GHQ) rendering nearly 100 telephones out of order, police said.

Subedar Mohammad Ilyas lodged a complaint with the Civil Lines police that the telephone cable connecting residences of army officers in Morgah and Defence Housing Authority had been stolen.

The 12-metre cable passed in front of Ayub Park, close to President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s official residence.

In a similar incident recently, a five-metre telephone cable was stolen due to which 1,000 telephone lines were affected.

ROBBERIES: Two robberies were committed in different parts of the city on Monday, police said.