Gangsta gold boy Zafar Supari lands in lock-up for supporting buddy

PML-N activist Zafar Numberdar was hauled in for harassing a rickshaw driver with a pistol

RAWALPINDI: PML-N activist Asad Numberdar and his buddy, the famous ‘gold boy’, Zafar Supari were locked up by RA Bazaar police for threatening a poor Rickshaw driver in the Rawalpindi district.

Supari, famous for flaunting gold jewelry and weapons on social media, had a strong political clout which failed to work this time. Changing times have deprived ‘gangsta’ style political activists of power and respect they once enjoyed.

Potohar division SP Syed Ali told the media that Asad Numberdar tried to hit a rickshaw with his car near a police picket on Harley Street. The rickshaw driver, who was going from Lal Kurti towards Bakr Mandi, asked Numberdar why did he do it. Infuriated, Numberdar cocked a pistol and pointed it at Sajjad.

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When the personnel on duty at a police picket saw him pointing a pistol at the distraught man, they jumped into action and overpowered Numberdar, who was brought to RA Bazaar precincts and put in the lock-up. Soon, a famous character of Rawalpindi, Zafar Supari, walked into the precincts to meet his friend, instead police threw him behind bars too on charges of obstructing official work.

Supari has also been booked in cases of protecting wanted criminals and proclaimed offenders in his locality, besides posing with illegal firearms on social media. Numberdar has done prison time for the murder of Raja Shoaib, a nephew of Punjab Law Minister Raja Bashart, SP Ali said. Police will produce Supari and Numberdar before a judge to seek their physical remand for further investigation. Separately, Ratta Amral police caught two fake cops, Inamul Haq, and Aftab Ahmed, for looting people at gunpoint while dressed in Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) uniform and also recovered two pistols and a motorcycle from them. Islamabad police have shifted them to the local police station and started investigation.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 26^th, 2019.