GUJRAT: Police on Tuesday claimed to have foiled a bid to smuggle a huge cache of weapons into Gujrat from Peshawar.

Police have also arrested two suspects and confiscated their double cabin vehicle on which the weapons were being smuggled into Gujrat.

A spokesman for Gujrat police told Dawn that on a tip-off Daulatnagar Station House Officer Rana Amir Saeed had set up a picket and stopped a double cabin vehicle.

He said a huge cache of arms was recovered from the vehicle, including four guns of 223 bore, one kalashnikov, one riffle of 44 bore, eight pistols of 9mm and three pistols of 30 bore.

Police have impounded the vehicle, arrested suspects Ajmal Khan and Shakeel Khan and registered a case.

REALTOR ROBBED: Some unidentified armed robbers looted a cash amount of Rs1.2 million from a property dealer near Meonwal village in Saddar Jalalpur Jattan police precincts.

Reports said property dealer Hassan Maqsood on his way along with a friend to make some payment when armed robbers intercepted him near Meonwal.

The robbers snatched the cash amount from him at gunpoint and fled the scene.

In another incident, armed robbers snatched gold ornaments worth Rs750,000 from two women in Saddar Kharian police precincts.

The robbers stopped a motorcycle rickshaw near Chak Peerana and looted the women riding the three-wheeler.

In Shadiwal town of Kunjah police area, some unidentified thieves took away cash and valuables worth around Rs0.5m from the outhouse of Muhammad Aslam.

Police have registered the cases against unidentified suspects and started investigation.

Published in Dawn, October 12th, 2022