LARKANA, Oct 2: The Larkana police arrested three people on Wednesday who were involved in preparing fake national identity cards, arms licences, educational certificates, and passports.

Police said that acting on a tip-off, the crime record officer (CRO), Larkana, Sub-inspector Mohammed Ashraf Lashari, raided a shop owned by Mehar Bozdar in the city suburbs and recovered 37 Computerized National Identity Cards.

Police said that they also recovered three arms licence bearing the stamps of various deputy commissioners of Balochistan, and two passports.

Police also took possession of all kinds of educational certificates ranging from Matriculation to MA.

The CRO office told this correspondent that it had laid hands on 93 iron seals of the deputy commissioner Gandakha, Jafferabad, the magistrate, home secretary Balochistan, SHO Kashi (Balochistan), two rubber stamps of the National Registration Authority, 13 rubber stamps of education officers of various grades, five rubber stamps of the excise and taxation department (pertaining to motor vehicle registration), one stamp of the National Bank of Pakistan, City Branch, Larkana, two rubber stamps of the National Identity Card Office, and one of the medical superintendent, Chandka Medical College Teaching Hospital.

Police have arrested the three racketeers — Mehar Bozdar, Ghulam Umar Soomro, and Ghulam Abbas Soomro.

NA: Unknown armed men opened fire on the vehicle of Syed Asghar Shah, a candidate of the National Alliance (NA) for NA-206 (Larkana-III), on the Larkana-Kambar road late Tuesday night.