KARACHI: 36 vehicles taken away

Published February 17, 2009

KARACHI, Feb 16: Thirty six vehicles – five cars and 31 motorcycles – and 30 cellular phones were taken away by Monday evening in different parts of the city.

Officials at the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee told Dawn that one car was snatched at gunpoint in the limits of Malir Cantonment police station, and four others were stolen in the jurisdictions of Mochkoh, Bin Qasim, Aziz Bhatti and Shershah police stations.

They said that four motorcycles were snatched at gunpoint within Defence, Model Colony, Khoprapar and Garden police limits. Twenty seven motorcycles were stolen in the police jurisdictions of Saeedabad, Defence, Jamshed Quarters, Brigade, Ferozeabad, Zaman Town, Quaidabad, Sharifabad, Rizvia Society, Baghdadi, Preedy, Garden, Kharadar, Sharea Faisal, Pak Colony and Site.

The officials said that 14 cellular phones were snatched at gunpoint within the limits of Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Saddar, Clifton, Jamshed Quarters, Korangi, Liaquatabad, Lyari, Malir City, North Nazimabad and Site.

Sixteen mobile phones were stolen in the police precincts of Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Jamshed Quarters, Orangi Town, Balida Town, Malir, North Nazimabad and Saddar.

They said that 11 cars, 38 motorcycles and 46 cellular phones were taken away on Sunday in different parts of the city. Of them, the officials said, three cars, seven bikes and 20 cellular phones were snatched at gunpoint.

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