Police arrested a gang demanding Bitcoin as ransom after kidnapping a person, a local media outlet reported while quoting a police report. Lahore’s deputy commissioner’s (DC) phone operator Mazhar Abbas was part…
KARACHI: Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Wednesday awarded a man a 35-year imprisonment sentence on the charges of kidnapping and murdering a child. The ATC judge found Mohsin Butt guilty of abducting a…
KARACHI: Two suspects involved in kidnapping a five-year-old from Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority were shot dead early Saturday morning, according to police reports. The suspects, identified as Zaheer Mirza and Zaki, were…
NAUDERO: Abducted fisherman Muhammad Hashim Mirbahar, 45, has been released by his kidnappers and he reached his home here in the wee hours of Sunday. He told newsmen that he was busy…
CHAMAN: Levies force recovered an abducted trader at Chaman’s Bypass area of district Killa Abdullah on Monday. Chaman Assistant Commissioner (AC) Kashif Nabi told media person in a press conference that following a…
The Obama administration said on Wednesday that $400 million in cash paid to Iran soon after the release of five Americans detained by Tehran was not ransom as some Republicans have charged.…
Shahbaz Taseer recovered in ‘intelligence-based raid’ on a house in Balochistan’s Kuchlak area five years after abduction Family refuses to comment on speculation that ransom was paid to secure scion’s release from…
Unidentified armed men kidnapped Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) backed member of Punjab Assembly Rana Jamil Hassan Friday night while he was on his way to Islamabad. According to Jamil’s brother Rana Wakeel…
Two young MBA students of PrestonUniversity have been kidnapped for a hefty ransom of Rs 5 million. According to details, the brother of the kidnappers registered the case in I-9 Police Station…
Former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday said the abductors of his son, Ali Haider Gilani, had not contacted him so far. “There is no clue and no progress towards the…
During joint operation of CPLC and AVCC, six accused including three women involved in kidnapping a two-month old child for ransom were arrested and the minor was rescued. According to details, the…
All Karachi Traders Association called to end the strike against extortion and ransom kidnapping at 5 pm Wednesday. Traders told that the shops would reopen in the evening at 5 pm. Earlier,…
Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s (KCCI) Acting President Younus Muhammad Bashir has demanded to control the recent waves of unbridled street crimes, criminal activities, extortion, kidnapping for ransom, terrorism in the…
Activists of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan executed another employee of the Balochistan Rural Support Programme after keeping him six months in captivity. Six employees of the BRSP were kidnapped in Barshore area of…
According to Mansoor Ijaz, he got the unsigned memo delivered to Adm Mike Mullen as asked for by Ambassador Husain Haqqani on behalf of President Asif Ali Zardari. To support his assertion,…
The body of a 12-year-old boy, who was the son of a slain police official, was found on Sunday after police arrested the men, who allegedly kidnapped and murdered him over non-payment…
A fraud scheme to collect funds using conventional media and social networks ostensibly for ‘ransom money’ came to an end on Wednesday when Rawalpindi Police, responding to news reports, investigated the matter…
