Passenger caught with half a kilo gold at airport
Karachi
February 9, 2021
Officials of the Pakistan Customs Collectorate deployed at Jinnah International Airport have arrested a passenger with gold worth Rs4.8 million. Irfan Ali, a spokesman for the customs, said on Monday that the personnel were screening passengers coming via flight QR-604 from Qatar to Pakistan.
During the process, they had a suspicion on a passenger and told him to pass through a walkthrough gate. As he walked through the gate, the customs staffers were alerted to some suspicious items on him.
The officials thoroughly searched the passenger, and this led to the discovery of 500 grams of 22-carat gold worth Rs4.8 million. The passenger, who is of Pakistani origin, was arrested and produced before a court for remand the following morning.
Fleeing robber dies after gun goes off accidentally
Karachi
January 7, 2021
A suspected robber died after his pistol went off when he along with his companions was trying to flee after snatching cash from a citizen in the Haroonabad area on Wednesday.
The SITE B police said the suspected robberâs companions escaped on the motorcycle, leaving him behind, after he was injured by with own gun. The suspects had deprived a citizen, Ali Hassan, of Rs300,000 in the Ghani Chowrangi area. Responding to information, police reached the crime scene and found Rs300,000, a pistol and a cell phone on the injured robber. They took him to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries during treatment.