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Robbed not once, but twice!
The “emergency” I had in mind was that with no signs of the traffic moving, what if another robber comes along.
KARACHI: Last weekend, late at night, on my way back from PAF Base Masroor, I was robbed at gunpoint not once but twice. The road leading to the ICI bridge from Mauripur had a massive traffic jam with vehicles stuck for more than two hours. As soon as the traffic stopped moving, I started to fear that I would be robbed. Sure enough about half-an-hour later a man appeared at my window with a pistol and demanded my wallet and cell phone, threatening to shoot me if I did not hurry up as “he had little time”. I promptly handed over my wallet and phone to him and gathered the courage to ask him to give me back Rs500, as I might need some money for some emergency. He handed me the note and left. The “emergency” I had in mind was that with no signs of the traffic moving, what if another robber comes along, what would I offer him?
It took, another, 30 minutes for me to be proven right. Another two men appeared, one of them with a pistol, and asked for money. I told them that I had already been robbed and had only Rs500, which they took quietly and went away. I could see a police mobile with its lights flashing a few furlongs ahead on the opposite side of the road.
Nusrat Vohra
Published in The Express Tribune, May 21st, 2011.
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Nusrat Vohra, you did the right thing both time you were robbed. At such incidents arguing with the robbers and resisting with them is never wise because it can be suicidal. However, I as a Freelance Security Educator & Consultant I would like to suggest that it is always wise to keep some money and your CNIC, ATM/Credit cards separately concealed in your clothes and also keep your actual Cell phone in vibration mode hidden on your body under the clothes while a unserviceable Cell phone and a spare wallet be kept containing some money and invalid ATM/Credit cards may be carried to deceive the robbers. Robbers are always in panic and in great hurry and generally do not want to take time in checking the contents of the wallet or serviceability of the phone. Similarly, it is also advisable to carry the duplicate keys of your car concealed in your clothes because sometime a robber also take away keys of the car with him in sheer frustration or anger if he could not get any thing from the victim. Recommend
@Sqn Ldr S.Ausaf Husain (Retd):
I think they teach that way at the PAF academy. Good advice but do they suggest how to get rid of these robbers altogather?!!!Recommend