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| Trader killed, sabotage bid foiled in Peshawar |
| 2014-05-02 |
| [DAWN] PESHAWAR: Unidentified armed persons rubbed out a trader in Akhtunabad area while an improvised bomb was defused in Shad Bagh Colony here on Wednesday. An official of Pando cop shoppe said that the killed trader was identified as Syed Athar Abbas Zaidi, a resident of Kochi Bazaar. He was on way to his home when unidentified gunnies targeted him with a pistol, he added. Quoting Syed Asghar Ali Shah, a relative of the dear departed, the official said that the trader was injured in the attack and departed this vale of tears in Lady Reading Hospital. "He was a businessman and had no enmity," the complainant said. He added that the attackers would be nominated in the case whenever a clue was found in that regard. Police also foiled a sabotage bid by defusing an improvised bomb (IED) planted outside a house at Shad Bagh Colony. An official of Yakatoot cop shoppe said that the device was planted outside residence of Daud Khan, who worked abroad. He said that the device was packed in a ghee canister but personnel of bomb disposal unit defused it timely. AIG Shafqat Malik said that the explosive weighed about two kilograms. A case against unidentified gunnies was registered at Yakatoot cop shoppe. ARMS SEIZED: Police seized a cache of arms and ammunitions and placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! an alleged smuggler and impounded a motorcar in Mattani area. Police said that they stopped a motorcar, coming from tribal area to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. city, and recovered eight Kalashnikovs, 80 pistols, two repeaters and 4,600 cartridges from its secret cavities. Police said that an arms smuggler Irshad, a resident of Jhagra, was arrested on the spot while his two accomplices managed to escape. Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... several suspected persons were arrested in the limits of Khan Raziq cop shoppe. Sources said that names of the arrested persons could not be ascertained. They were travelling in a motorcar having registration number of Islamabad and police took them into custody for interrogation, they added. |
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