KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers claimed to have arrested 19 suspected criminals from different areas of the metropolis.
Rangers spokesperson said among the arrested accused one of the criminal, Bilal alias aka Irani, is affiliated with the Lyari gang war while another identified as Jamil is linked with the Uzair Baloch group.
The spokesperson further said that street criminals were apprehended from Madinah Colony, Napier Road, Malir, Azizabad, Mithadar and Tipu Sultan areas of the metropolis.
Separately, drug peddlers were detained from Alfalah, Garden, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Jackson and Napier. He said that the apprehended criminals were handed over to the police for legal formalities.
The rangers also recovered drugs, weapons, stolen motorcycles, and other stuff from the suspects’ possession.
Earlier on March 9, Pakistan Rangers Sindh had conducted joint operations with city police apprehended 15 suspected criminals from different parts of the city.
According to a press release issued by the paramilitary force’s spokesman, the paramilitary force and police nabbed 15 criminals, including notorious dacoits, and drug peddlers during their targeted operations.
On a tip-off, the rangers and police carried out raids including Lyari’s Karli and Baghdadi, Shah Faisal Colony, Saeedabad, North Nazimabad and Baloch Colony and arrested 13 street criminals.
The arrested criminals were identified as Shakir, Hassnain, Mukhtar, Muhammad Akbar, Amanullah, Asir Qasmi, Muhammad Hasnain, Talha, Nabeel, Muhammad Iqbal, Umar Farooq, Anwar and Muhammad Waqwas.
Separately, during targeted raids in Maripur and North Nazimabad the law enforcement personnel detained a drug peddler, Dawood Khan and a weapon dealer, Muhammad Aqib.
