Broad daylight: MNA robbed in front of house

MNA’s husband’s mobile phone was also snatched by two unidentified men.

LAHORE:


A Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA was robbed of cash and gold jewellery on Monday afternoon, near her house in Faisal Town.


MNA Sumaira Yasir’s husband’s mobile phone was also snatched by two unidentified men.


According to the FIR registered by Yasir Rasheed, the MNA’s husband, the men took away six gold bangles and Rs15,000 in cash from Sumaira Yasir. ML-N MNA (NA-115Narowal-I) and her husband in broad day light in Faisal Town precincts.

Rasheed, told The Express Tribune that two men on a motorcycle intercepted them as they pulled up in front side of their house in E-Block, a little after 1pm. He was on the phone at the time.

One of the men pulled a gun on him and snatched his mobile phone. The couple was warned against raising an alarm. One of the robbers told Yasir to take off her gold bangles and hand them over to him. The same man had then searched through her purse and taken the Rs15,000 the MNA was carrying, following which the robbers fled.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 7th, 2012.