Daring gangsters enjoy full freedom to loot public at midnight near Islamabad Club

Islamabad
Daring gangsters enjoyed full freedom in the mid of the city by looting cash and mobile phones and snatching away a car after they opened firing at two cars at Murree Road near Islamabad Club but the weak and creak police personnel didn’t dare to interrupt them mid Friday night, the victims told this correspondent.
Ironically the bandits blocked the road, not in the outskirts but on the busiest road of the federal capital, just 70 meters away from the police picket and started looting cars and bike riding people depriving them of cash, mobile phone sets and other valuable after holding them on gun point at about 12:45 a.m.
The victims criticising the ineffective role of the area police said that they felt unsecured because of cold attitude of the police while the Rangers deployed about only a kilometre away from the crime scene, reacted immediately and reached the scene on the victims request and helped them in chasing the dacoits.
“It was the biggest incident of the heinous crime of looting and shooting in the most sensitive location of the city after the government introduced the joint patrolling system of Rangers and the police,” the victims expressing their anger said. They said that the daring incident indicated that the joint patrolling system has failed and police were responsible for the failure.
According to the eyewitness accounts, a group of gunmen started intercepting vehicles including private cars and motorcycles snatching their purses, mobile phones and other valuables after holding them on gun point. In the meantime, they intercepted two cars including Toyota Camery, owned by a restaurant owner located in Rose and Jasmine Garden and a white Honda but the highway robbers opened fire at both cars when they sped up their vehicles. But the despairing part of the incident was that the police personnel deployed at the police picked positioned a few dozens meters from the shooting point, didn’t bother to rush to the scene after hearing the firing.
The looting spree didn’t end there but the bandits kept snatching valuables from the vehicle riders, the victims said. They said that meanwhile, they intercepted a Suzuki Cultas car of journalists bearing registration number (RLD-2666), pushed the riders out of the car and sped away towards Islamabad Highway.
One of the riders of the snatched car, Noor Aftab, told this correspondent that they approached the police immediately after the muggers snatched their car but got no response from the police, however, Rangers personnel who got information from the other car riders who were shot at by the gangsters, reached the scene and offered their services and joined the victims for chasing the criminals while the police party instead of putting their effective efforts, asked the victims to contact them in the morning as they have circulated the police pickets via wireless control.
Meanwhile, the location was traced through an intelligence agency at Akbar Town, Shakrial near Zia Masjid, the Rangers accompanied them and reached the location but the security guard of the area informed them the car with the same number had just left the place and sped away towards Rawat via Islamabad Highway. They got information that the car stopped at a petrol pump at Rawat, put after filling Rs1000 fuel in the car it had left towards Mandra.
Inspector general of police (IGP) Tahir Alam Khan said when connected by this correspondent to obtain their comments about the last night incident said that the official responsible for the incident would be fixed according to the law. He said that departmental inquiry has been ordered to fix responsibility, adding that the SHO and the official who were on duty and on patrolling would be interrogated.