KARACHI:
The Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) has found a stolen oil tanker, carrying jet fuel worth five million rupees, for Nato forces.
ACLC Chief SSP Javed Akbar Riaz said that his team raided a plot in Manghopir after they received a tip-off on Saturday and found the Kabul-bound oil tanker, carrying 55,000 litres of fuel. The police held the plot’s tenant, Muhammad Afridi, and watchman, Nawaz Sharif.
Riaz said that the tanker was snatched by at least five armed men from Shireen Jinnah Colony in Clifton on Friday night, while the driver, Liaquat Awan, is also missing. “It is premature to say if other people are missing with the driver,” he said, adding that, “Our initial investigation leads us to believe that it is a criminal group that sells the stolen fuel in the market.” The police are still looking for the plot’s owner, Jan Afridi, and have registered a case against unidentified men.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 10th, 2011
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