Balochistan Crime: Highway robberies on the rise

KALAT: Enraged passengers blocked the RCD Highway for traffic after unidentified armed bandits looted several coaches near Johan area on Saturday. According to local levies, dacoits deprived the passengers of their cash and valuables at gun-point. The passengers later staged a protest against increasing incidents of highway robberies in Balochistan. They only dispersed after local administration assured them of early arrest of the robbers. A similar incident was reported in Dera Murad Jamali.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 24^th, 2011.