FIA officials kidnapped

Published May 20, 2008

SHIKARPUR, May 19: Two FIA officials were kidnapped from Garhi Yasin-Ratodero road in the Dakhan area on Monday, the area police said.

According to Dakhan police, FIA inspectors Zafar Ahmed Baloch and Nisar Ahmed Sawand were going to Sukkur from Larkana in a car. A group of armed men intercepted the car and hijacked it with the two officials.

No FIR was registered till the filing of this report.

Meanwhile, Naparkot police arrested two oil thieves while they were stealing petrol from Parco pipeline.

According to the police, they caught Jamaluddin and Ayoub red handed an impounded an oil tanker they were using in the crime.

Opinion

Editorial

Digital growth
Updated 25 Apr, 2024

Digital growth

Democratising digital development will catalyse a rapid, if not immediate, improvement in human development indicators for the underserved segments of the Pakistani citizenry.
Nikah rights
25 Apr, 2024

Nikah rights

THE Supreme Court recently delivered a judgement championing the rights of women within a marriage. The ruling...
Campus crackdowns
25 Apr, 2024

Campus crackdowns

WHILE most Western governments have either been gladly facilitating Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, or meekly...
Ties with Tehran
Updated 24 Apr, 2024

Ties with Tehran

Tomorrow, if ties between Washington and Beijing nosedive, and the US asks Pakistan to reconsider CPEC, will we comply?
Working together
24 Apr, 2024

Working together

PAKISTAN’S democracy seems adrift, and no one understands this better than our politicians. The system has gone...
Farmers’ anxiety
24 Apr, 2024

Farmers’ anxiety

WHEAT prices in Punjab have plummeted far below the minimum support price owing to a bumper harvest, reckless...