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PAKISTAN – Three armed men snatched Minister for Ports and Shipping Babar Ghauri’s personal car

Babar Ghauri’s car snatched in Karachi

KARACHI: Three armed men snatched Minister for Ports and Shipping Babar Ghauri’s personal car in Karachi on Friday.

Ghauri told Express News that his daughter, who was in the car, was safe.

The minister’s car was intercepted by the snatchers near Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block 17. The armed men also beat up the driver and the guard and stole the weapon and mobile phones along with the car. …

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FBR confirms 24,000 containers missing from Karachi Port

by Ansar Abbasi

ISLAMABAD: Thousands of Nato, ISAF and US Military containers have reportedly gone missing inside Pakistan during the last four years amid serious fears that many of these may have contained arms and ammunitions, which may have gone to terrorists.

Almost corroborating the grave charges levelled by PPP leader Dr Zulfiqar Mirza that a senior minister of MQM was responsible for these missing containers being in-charge of Ports and Shipping Ministry, sources in the Federal Board of Revenue say in addition to more than 24,000 missing containers of Afghan Transit Trade Commercial side, thousands of the unchecked containers belonging to Nato, ISAF and US Military had left the Karachi Port, but did not cross the Pak-Afghan border during the last four years. The sources, ….

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