Tag: Stolen

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ISLAMABAD - As many as 505 vehicles were stolen and 90 were snatched in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) in 2010, Minister for Interior Rehman Malik informed the National Assembly on Friday.
In a written reply to a question, he said that there is slight increase in the ratio of car lifting and jacking crimes and about 144 vehicles were lifted and 19 were snatched so far in the current year.
Malik said 109 cases were registered under head of car jacking (snatching) in

TOBA TEK SINGH - Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Dullam feeder's cable worth lakhs of rupees was stolen in load shedding hours. Reportedly, thieves took away electric wire and high voltage cable worth millions of rupees in Basti Pathanan Wali on Toba-Waryam Wala Link Road.
The residents said such incidents had been taken place in their area for the last several months, but not even a single thief had been arrested so far. They doubted that FESCO officials were involved

LOS ANGELES - A British screenwriter is suing Disney and Pixar, claiming the animated hit 'Cars' and its forthcoming sequel are based in part on work he submitted in the early 1990s. Jake Mandeville-Anthony is seeking an injunction to stop the June 24 theatrical release of 'Cars 2.' He filed the claim this week in U.S. District Court. According to the complaint, Mandeville claimed he created a three-part screenplay titled 'Cookie & Co.,' about the true-life adventure of race-car

KARACHI - The night of March 17 at Karachi Port saw, what the sources called, one of the "biggest" thefts of imported leftover cargo, belonging to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP).
According to well-placed sources, the entire hierarchy of Karachi Port Trust (KPT) and the Ministry of Ports and Shipping was shaken on March 18, with news that at least two dumper trucks had entered and left East Wharf of the country's largest port after stealing precious metals worth millions of

BERLIN - The dramatic theft of material from a critical new documentary on jailed Russian former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has touched off a storm of suspicion days before its world premiere in Berlin. German director Cyril Tuschi said that he aimed to shed light on the puzzling aspects of the ex-Yukos chief's case with his first documentary 'Khodorkovsky,' which will still screen as planned at the Berlin film festival Monday.
The film paints a nuanced picture of the man at

ISLAMABAD - An unspecified number of official files have been stolen from the Ministry of Labour and Manpower, a police official said. He stated that a ministry employee Mukhtiar Ahmad reported on Wednesday that a massive quantity of official record, bearing accounts worth millions of rupees, had been stolen by some 'unknown persons'.
The Secretariat police, after recording statements of a number of ministry officials, have registered a case under section 380. A team, headed by

FAISALABAD - A group of thieves, posing as Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) employees, stole three transformers from separate places. The transformers were stolen from Samanabad, Guttwala and Madina Town while FESCO has failed to trace the gang. An average transformer costs Rs 500,000 while the thieves are strealing them just to dismantle the unit and take out the copper wire from it.
The sources said the copper wire of each transformer was sold in scrap market for a

FAISALABAD - A dacoit gang broke into a jewellery shop at Saturday night and took away a large quantity of gold ornaments worth Rs 16 million. Reportedly, the organised gang entered the sho of Shahzad Gold Jewellers from the roof after drilling a large hole, emptied all shelves and iron safes and took 200 tolas of gold jewellery worth Rs 16 million.
Sarafa Bazaar Chiniot is the busiest commercial centre. Surprisingly, there were no watchman or CCTV cameras in the shop for the

LOS ANGELES - Was U.S. network Fox deceitful in the creation of its hit show "Lie to Me?"
John Gertz Prods. says it acquired in 2005 the screen rights to the novel "The Interview Room," by Roderick Anscombe, about a psychiatrist and expert in detecting lies who confronts a challenging patient.
The book was turned into a screenplay entitled "Lie to Lie," according to a complaint filed in LA Superior Court. In September, 2007, JPG and Anscombe say they pitched the project to

LAHORE - A car owned by former Inspector General of Punjab Police Maj Mushtaq was stolen on Monday from his house in South Cantonment Police precincts. Police registered a case against unidentified car thieves and started investigating.
The police said that a car with a green number plate bearing registration number LXA-1654 was being used by former Inspector General of Punjab Police Maj Mushtaq. Maj Mushtaq's driver Constable Irfan Baig parked the car outside the house in

LAHORE - Police have failed to recover a government-owned Bolan carry van stolen on Friday. According to police sources, the vehicle was allocated to Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) employee Nadeem Ghauri and stolen from in front of his residence in Shadbagh.
Police officials revealed that the car was owned by former Lahore Capital City Police officer (CCPO) and PPSC Member Pervaiz Rathore's staff member. Nadeem told police that he had parked the vehicle in front of his

ISLAMABAD: As many as three murders and 41 cases of car lifting and robbery were reported in Islamabad, exposing the 'high security arrangements' by the capital police.
According to data gathered by Pakistan Today, last week, 21 incidents of car lifting and 20 cases of robbery and three murder cases were reported in the different police stations.
Industrial Area Police Station was on the top with four vehicles stolen two houses robbed. Similarly, carjackers took away four