Peshawar
May 8, 2021
NOWSHERA: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police, Sanaullah Abbasi said on Friday that those who tried to rob a commercial bank the previous day in the Pabbi town of Nowshera district had links to militants based in Afghanistan.
He was talking to the media after about the health of Head Constable Shakil Khan of the Riders Squad who was injured while foiling the Rs21 million robbery.
Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mardan, Yaseen Farooq and Nowshera District Police Officer Muhammad Iqbal accompanied the police chief.
A gang of three robbers had stormed a private bank in Pabbi on Thursday. The timely action by the cops and the bank’s security guards had foiled the robbery bid but Head Constable Shakil Khan was injured during the action.