Tag: Ransom

A Hindu trader of Quetta was killed by his captors on Tuesday for not receiving a ransom of Rs 20 million. Ravi Kumar had...

Police claimed on Monday to have arrested six persons for their alleged involvement in kidnapping for ransom cases. A police spokesman said Shehzad Town Police...

The Koral police on Wednesday arrested the main accused involved in abducing a 10-year-old child afor Rs 7 million ransom. As per directions of...

Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ahmed Raza Tahir on Tuesday called upon Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Javed Iqbal and briefed him about...

The family of former Governor Punjab Salman Taseer’s have refuted reports that the kidnappers have demanded Rs 2 billion ransom for the release of...

Three French aid workers who were kidnapped in southeastern Yemen are held by Al-Qaeda members who are seeking a $12 million ransom for their...

The endless series of abductions in the province has become a perpetual headache for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa people as professional kidnappers have been embolden...

New details have emerged of how two western hostages in Afghanistan were freed in exchange for a hefty ransom paid in Pakistan and the...

Police tracked down a gang of three kidnappers who freed a kidnapped factory owner after receiving Rs 20 million from his family for his...

GAO - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is demanding at least 90 million euros in ransom for the release of four French hostages held since September, a source close to mediators said on Monday.
The French people were kidnapped in September 2010 in neighbouring Niger, where France has a large stake in uranium mining, and are still being held hostage in the desert. "The kidnappers are demanding at least 90 million euros (128 million dollars) to release the four French

FAISALABAD - A spinning mill owner, kidnapped from Madina Town two months ago, reached home after his son paid Rs 40 million ransom to the criminal gang. Reportedly, Muhammad Siddique disappeared from Khayaban Colony on January 14, 2011, when he was going in his car from his house to Madina Town mosque for Friday prayers. The eyewitnesses told the police that several armed men stopped their car in front of the victim's car, ordered him to alight from the vehicle at gunpoint and took

ISLAMABAD - Kidnapping for ransom is emerging as a lucrative crime in Pakistan, as 2368 such cases were registered across the country during the last four years with 604 in the year 2010 alone. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Interior, a total of 449 cases of kidnapping for ransom were reported in 2007, 670 in 2008 and 645 in 2009.
As the country registered a mild drop in the crime in 2010, a sharp surge was witnessed in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and

LAHORE - Organised Crime CIA Police have successfully concluded three cases of kidnapping for ransom, including a high-profile case of a 24-year-old British national woman, who along with her Pakistani husband went missing on January 10, Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Aslam Tareen said on Sunday in a press conference at his office.
The CIA Police have safely recovered the kidnapped people, sophisticated weapons and ransom-money from possession of the criminals.