RAWALPINDI: Robbers looted a deputy attorney general for Pakistan and a spokesperson for the ruling PTI Punjab north along with four other people in separate incidents in the garrison city, police said on Sunday.

Regional Police Officer Sohail Habib Tajik and City Police Officer Mohammad Ahsan Younas visited the houses of the deputy attorney general and the PTI leader with forensic experts and assured them that the culprits would be held within seven days.

After entering the house of PTI’s secretary information north Punjab, Azhar Iftikhar Chaudhry, the robbers refused to take gold bangles which his wife was wearing. They told her that they wanted only those jewellery which were kept in the house.

The robbers also advised the woman to go on preaching (tabligh) and asked her daughter-in-law to always recite verses from the holy Quran.Mr Chaudhry, a resident of Gulzar-i-Quaid, complained to the Airport police that four persons entered his house at about 1:30am and tortured his sons Naveed Hassan and Shakeel Hassan.

Robbers also loot four other people in city

He said the robbers then came to his room on the first floor and tied his arms. They snatched Riyals 12,000, Rs60,000, one mobile phone, and gold jewellerySohail Mehmood, the deputy attorney general for Pakistan and a resident of Gulistan Colony, told Civil Lines police that three persons entered his house at about 10:30am and held his life, father, an advocate of the Supreme Court, along with their servant at gunpoint.

All the family members were made hostage in the drawing room by the robbers who seemed to be in their 40s. The robbers collected two laptops, one Ipad, two diamond and gold rings, a gold necklace, a pair of gold earrings, silver jewellery, Rs5,000 cash, 100 dollars and a bag containing documents and escaped.Mohammad Mushtaq, manager of a petrol station, complained to the police that three robbers looted Rs115,000 from him.

Imran Bhatti of Range Road was robbed of a motorcycle and a mobile phone by two robbers.

Mohammad Shafaat Khan lodged a complaint with the Racecourse police that his niece was returning home from school when a motorcycle rider snatched a laptop and her purse and sped away.

A similar complaint was lodged with the Saddar Barooni police by Dilawar Mumtaz. He said his wife was returning home when two motorcycle riders snatched her purse and a mobile phone.

Published in Dawn, January 20th, 2020