All Stories: ransom

KARACHI: Police on Wednesday rescued a hostage kidnapped for ransom and arrested two kidnappers from near Civic Centre, ARY News reported.

KARACHI: Rangers have arrested the criminals involved in kidnapping a 14-year-old boy, Kashan, who was kidnapped from Bukhari Commercial area on March 12. 

KARACHI: Rangers launched an operation city’s Gharibabad neighbourhood and arrested an assistant sub-inspector on charges of extortion, ARY News reported.

DAMASCUS: Al Qaeda has released a British woman on 'humanitarian' grounds without demanding a ransom after finding out about her long history of mental illness.

WASHINGTON: About $1 million provided by the CIA to a secret Afghan government fund ended up in the hands of al Qaeda in 2010 when it was used to pay a ransom for an Afghan diplomat, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

GUJRANWALA: Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Gujranwala on Monday awarded death sentence to two persons over murder of a 12-year old child, ARY News reports.

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he wanted to debate the possibility of Japan's military rescuing Japanese citizens abroad, a day after Islamic State militants said they had beheaded a Japanese journalist.

KARACHI: An alleged gangster from Lyari was killed in an encounter whereas another was apprehended in a wounded state, ARY News reports.

KARACHI: An alleged Lyari gangster was killed in an encounter at Nawalane area of Lyari whereas three people were injured while resisting a robbery attempt near Nipa Chowrangi, ARY News reports.

NEW YORK: Wall Street Journal (WSJ) printed a report stating that ransom cases in Pakistan have increased since Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) split into different factions, ARY News reports.