KARACHI – An elderly man was robbed of $4,000 when he was on way to home after withdrawing the foreign currency from a private bank in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi on Friday.
Aziz Bhatti Police Station has registered the First Information Report (FIR) of the incident under Section 397/34 and 944/2023 on a complaint of the victim identified as Aqeeluddin.
In a statement to police, he said his son Adnan Aqeel, who is settled in Saudi Arabia, had sent the amount equivalent to around Rs1.1 million to him.
On December 6, I withdraw the amount from a private bank at 12 and going back to home in a rickshaw when two suspects, who were riding a bike, intercepted them and took away the money at gunpoint,” Aqeeludding said.
According to a report, the number of people killed by street criminals across Karachi in the first nine months (January-September) of the current year reached 100.
