Australian woman robbed at gunpoint in Islamabad’s Super Market

Snatching case registered at the Kohsar Police Station but police have found no clue to suspects yet

ISLAMABAD: Months after a Canadian senator was mugged in Islamabad’s upscale Super Market, an Australian citizen has also fallen prey to street crime in the very same neighbourhood Sunday evening.

Jennifer Isobel Mckay, who is an Australian national living in the federal capital, was robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot of the market while she was sitting in the car.

“I was robbed in my car at gunpoint in the car parking, F-6 Super Market at 7:20pm. They pointed a gun to my head and grabbed my handbag and ran,” Mckay maintained in her application to the police. The handbag contained $250 and Rs10,000.

A snatching case has been registered at the Kohsar Police Station but the police have found no clue to suspects yet.





This is the second time a foreigner became a victim of street crime in the same market. While this is the second incident of a foreign woman falling victim to a crime in the upscale market in the recent months.

On April 25, a Canadian senator of Pakistani origin was also mugged in the Super Market by two motorcyclists. The police, however, were able to arrest the suspects in two days and recover valuables of Senator Salma Attaullah Jan.

Then in July this year, a cabbie allegedly stole a bag of a French woman containing valuables from the Super Market. Laurian Houbian had told the Kohsar police that she was sitting with a friend on a bench outside KFC in Super Market when a man stole their bag and fled in a taxi in wee hours.

The bag contained her laptop, camera, mobile phone and cash. The police had registered a theft case against the unidentified man.