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KARACHI, June 12: Sixteen vehicles — five cars and 11 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Wednesday, the police said.
Two cars were hijacked. Three others were stolen.
Three motorcycles were hijacked. Eight others were stolen.
The police also claimed on Wednesday to have recovered five cars and eight motorcycles in the city.
ROBBERY: A senior journalist working for an English daily was robbed of cash near his Nazimabad home on Wednesday morning.
Wirasat Hasnain, who works for Business Recorder, told this reporter that he withdrew Rs145,000 from Allied Bank’s Hadi Market branch in Nazimabad around 11:30am and left for his home in the same vicinity, with a friend of his, in a Suzuki Hi-roof.
As he reached in front of his house, two of the three armed men, who were following them in a Suzuki pick-up, intercepted the Suzuki Hi-roof at gunpoint. He said that one of the armed men, who put a TT pistol to his neck, told him to hand him Rs145,000 which he had withdrawn from the ABL’s Hadi Market branch.
He gave the cash to the bandit without putting up any resistance. The bandits drove away with the loot. The third bandit remained seated in the pick-up.
Mr Wirasat, a former president of the Karachi Union of Journalists, got an FIR (No 200/2002) registered at Nazimabad police station. He said that the bank did not have surveillance cameras as the manager told the police that the bank lacked funds to install such cameras. He said that his car had been burnt down when the office of the newspaper was attacked in May 2000. He had still not been compensated by the government for the loss of the car. He drew the cash to buy a car.
