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BR staffer robbed

RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: A staffer of the daily Business Recorder was deprived of cash and mobile phone here at Sundar Das Road in the early hours of Tuesday.

Waqas Akram, a sub-editor was on his way home on a motorcycle after performing his duties, when reached at Sundar Das Road, two armed men, who were on a rickshaw way-laid him. They snatched Rs 1500, a mobile phone and other documents at gun point and escaped.

Police Station Race Course has registered a case against the unknown dacoits, but failed to arrest the culprits.

Meanwhile, Zahir Babur, Secretary General, Lahore Press Club while expressing deep concern over the increasing incidents of dacoities in the city, asked the government to adopt effective measures for the security of people especially journalists.

He also demanded of the government to arrest the culprits immediately.