The suspected thieves were put behind bars and an investigation has been launched. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
Nowshera DPO Waqar Ahmad said he directed the Pabbi police under the supervision of SHO Muhammad Ijaz to raid a secret warehouse based on intelligence information.
The warehouse was located near Malang CNG station on Nowshera-Peshawar GT Road. The container was recovered, but the DPO said he was unaware if the seal was broken. “We informed a Nowshera civil judge who inspected the container, but did not suggest anything about a broken seal,” said the DPO.
Pabbi police official Maqsood Khan said they arrested a man identified as Muhammad Ikram, a resident of Landikotal, along with six others. “The accused was trying to cut the seal when we arrested him with cutting tools,” he said. The suspected thieves were put behind bars and an investigation has been launched, he added.
Ikram confessed the container was bound for Karachi during an interrogation, and that he was informed it was loaded with weapons and power generators. “We were trying to take out the generators when the police raided,” Ikram revealed.
He also admitted to stealing goods from containers previously and said the driver, Raees Khan, who managed to escape during the raid, had told him to break the seal. “I hadn’t broken the seal at the time of our arrest,” he claimed.
Maqsood said the container will be shifted to Jamrud for screening and inspection.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 31st, 2013.
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The police who claimed that container was stolen, actually it gets clearance on the same day when police arrest it. The container cross the border at 28th may 2013, cleared from customs authorities and on 29th may 2013 NLC screening department cleared it at round about 12.00 noon in jamrud. The said container reached peshawar ring road at 3.00PM, it was stopped at the Nato Terminal on ring road. Cleared at 4.00PM for the departure to karachi. Now Pabbi police claimed that due to the information given to them for the lost of the same container, they launched secret operation to recover it. Who give them the information? how its lost in seconds? infact it was on road for karachi. police arrests the drivers and illegally detained them.
The police who claimed that container was stolen, actually it crossed the border on the same day when police arrest it. The container cross the border at 28th may 2013, cleared from customs authorities and on 29th may 2013 NLC screening department cleared it at round about 12.00 noon in jamrud. The said container reached peshawar ring road at 3.00, it was stopped at the Nato Terminal on ring road. Cleared at 4.00 for the departure to karachi. Now Pabbi police claimed that due to the information given to them for the lost of the same container, they launched secret operation to recover it. Who give them the information? how its lost in seconds? infact it was on road for karachi. police arrests the drivers and illegally detained them.