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.
IGP says arrested bank robber linked with Afghan militants
National
May 8, 2021
NOWSHERA: KP Inspector General of Police Sanaullah Abbasi said on Friday the robbers who had tried to rob a commercial bank a day before in the Pabbi town of the Nowshera district had links to militants based in Afghanistan.
He was talking to the media after inquiring into the health of the police Head Constable Shakil Khan of the Riders Squad who was injured while foiling the Rs 21million robbery. Deputy Inspector General of Police Mardan Yaseen Farooq, Nowshera District Police Officer Muhammad Iqbal accompanied the police chief.
A gang of three robbers had stormed a commercial bank in Pabbi on Thursday. The timely action by the cops and the security guards had foiled the robbery bid but Head Constable Shakil Khan was injured during the action.
Police arrest five robbers, recover Rs10m
Suspects had allegedly robbed a driver carrying cash of a private firm
PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The Islamabad, Nowshera and Mardan police have arrested a five-member gang of robbers involved in looting Rs10 million from the driver of a private firm on Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway.
An official of Mardan police was also part of the gang, said Nowshera District Police Officer (DPO) Najamul Hasnain on Sunday.
Talking to the media in the federal capital, DPO Hasnain said that the suspects disguised as excise officials had stopped the driver of a private company on Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway in the precincts of Nowshera police station and looted Rs10 million from him last Friday.