'Karachi gang' loots mobile shops

LAHORE - A Karachi-based gang of robbers looted two mobile shops of the Hall Road, a famous and very important sale point of electronic products in the City here early on Tuesday.
A police source said that after completing the target successfully, the ringleader of the said dacoit gang along with his some accomplices reached Karachi by air. His location was traced in Karachi through one of the mobile phones looted from the said shops. The said cell phone was owned by an employee of the affected shop, the police sources said.
Most of the outlaws of the said gang were identified as Karachi citizens through their accent during communication among them, the security guards told the police investigators while the others were Punjabi and Pathan.
Owners of the said two shops Muhammad Fayyaz and Nasir Jamshed estimated loss of around 250,0000 including cash, 150 mobile phones and calling cards. In protest against the armed robbery, the traders, shopkeepers and union representatives closed the Hall Road markets.
The protesting traders burnt tyres and blocked The Mall, Hall Road and the McLeod Road for traffic for at least three hours causing massive traffic jam.