In a recent press talk, Sindh’s Inspector General of Police, Ghulam Nabi Memon, stated that the police department has faced significant losses in personnel and resources battling dacoit gangs who possess more advanced weaponry.
He, however, mentioned that the Sindh government is acquiring similar arms for the police force, with a shipment expected from Turkey in the next two weeks.
A gang involved in the abduction of Pakistani students in Turkey has been exposed after a video of the students in the captivity of the alleged abductors has surfaced, Salah Uddin has reported for ARY News.
The gang allegedly abducts Pakistani students for ransom.
According to the news report, Noman Altaf, a 17-year-old student from Khanewal, Pakistan, was allegedly kidnapped in Turkey after the gang promised him a better future in Europe and Athens. The gang eventually collected extortion from his family.
Their modus operandi involved sending videos of abducted students to their families to collect ransom from them.
In addition, eight other Pakistani students who travelled to Turkey for academic purposes encountered incidents of the same sort. The kidnappers in Turkey are alleged to have also tortured their victims.
The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Cell nabbed a gang in Lahore on Friday that was allegedly making money from the “dark web” through child pornography, Muhammad Shehzad reports for The Express Tribune.
According to the preliminary inquiry, at least 10 people have been sexually exploited. Suspects living in a private housing society situated in Lahore would lure victims through money or other means, rape them and film the entire process.
According to the FIA, the suspects extorted money from the victims and sexually assaulted them by threatening to go viral with their obscene tapes if they refused.
The complainant, father of a victim, said that the accused, Arslan Arshad and Ammad Shahzad, used to to sexually assault and videotape children of their neighbourhood without their consent. They would monetise it by uploading it to the internet. He said that his son was also trapped by them. The suspects on February 15 took the victim to the upper portion of his house and sexually assaulted him and also recorded a video.
After receiving the plea, the FIA initiated an investigation and arrested suspect Abid Ali in the Arifwala tehsil of Pakpattan district.
Officials also discovered a big amount of films of child pornography on his phone, and the main suspect, Arslan, was seen raping youngsters in the videos.
FIA Cyber Crime Cell Lahore has registered a case against the accused persons under Section 20, 21 and 22 of The Prevention of Electronic Crime Act (PECA) 2016 and section 109 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
Two rival monkey gangs clashed on a street in Thailand’s Lopburi in a fight over the food near a traffic junction.
The video of the incident went viral on social media. Hundreds of monkeys on the street brought the traffic to a halt as people on motorbikes and cars waited to get a clear way out of there while being frightened.
The man who recorded the fight, Pong Muangthong, said motorists also tried honking their horns to scatter the monkeys but that only made them angrier.
As a result of this incident, several monkeys were injured. There was blood on the road.
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“Monkey battles in Lopburi occur frequently. It’s not strange. It’s about the power struggle, the food fight, the fertilization of the females,” a spokesperson for the Department of National Parks told Matichon.
According to Daily Mail, Covid-19 might be the reason behind the gang war.
The Kashmore police arrested the leader of a gang involved in kidnapping men after pretending to be women and befriending them.
As per reports, the gang used to call men and befriend them while talking to them in a woman’s voice. Once they became friends with them, they asked them to meet somewhere. When the men arrived to meet the woman, they were kidnapped.
The gang was kidnapping a Kashmore resident named Abdur Razzaq near a railway station in Kandhkot when some policemen on patrol stopped the vehicle to search it.
One of the kidnappers tried to shoot the cops following which there was an exchange of fire. However, the police managed to get the situation in control and stopped the kidnapping from taking place. No police personnel were hurt in the shootout. They arrested the gang’s leader while the other five suspects escaped.