GUJAR KHAN: The residents of Gujar Khan have been deprived of their cars, motorcycles, mobile phones, cash, jewelry, and other valuables during the last few months but police failed to trace a single crime.

Talking to Dawn, a local doctor said a couple of months ago, robbers had looted his elderly father of Rs500,000. He was on his way home after withdrawing the money from a bank when robbers snatched the amount at gunpoint. Police had registered the case but no recovery is made so far.

Another victim of the surging street crime in Gujar Khan was Potohar Press Club’s general secretary Malik Javaid Iqbal.

He said he was deprived of three expensive mobile phones during the period of few months but police failed to recover a single mobile phone.

Another local journalist of Gujar Khan, Sarang Pasha, told Dawn that he and his friends were deprived of seven mobile phones worth Rs450,000, and a gold ring and Rs60,000 in cash at gunpoint in July.

Hassan Akhter, a trader in Gujar Khan told Dawn that his mobile phone worth Rs50,000 was stolen a few months ago and police could not recover it as yet.

On Friday, a woman in Gujar Khan was waiting at the bus stop for the bus and men offered her a lift in their car. On the way, the suspects cut the gold earrings of the woman with a plier and left her near Ghangrilla railway station.

On Saturday evening, two other persons were deprived of their mobile phones.

The victims of robberies have urged RPO and CPO Rawalpindi to take notice of the worsening crime situation in the area.

Published in Dawn, October 17th, 2021