{"id":67832,"date":"2025-03-12T13:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T08:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=67832"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T08:30:25","slug":"group-of-hikers-robbed-at-gunpoint-on-islamabads-trail-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/group-of-hikers-robbed-at-gunpoint-on-islamabads-trail-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Group of hikers robbed at gunpoint on Islamabad&#8217;s Trail 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A group of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/naran-babusar-highway-restores-for-traffic-after-6-months\/\">ten hikers<\/a> was robbed at gunpoint on Islamabad&#8217;s Trail 7, with one of them briefly kidnapped for ransom before being rescued, police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on March 9 when the group had gone for hiking and Iftar. As they were returning around 6:40 pm, armed men intercepted them, stealing their cash and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nadra-launches-pak-id-mobile-app-for-visa-on-arrival\/\">expensive mobile phones.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The robbers then took one hiker, Umar Tariq, hostage and demanded Rs. 100,000 for his release. Golra Sharif police registered a case after a complaint by Abdul Muqeet, who stated that the suspects spoke Punjabi and Urdu and could be identified if seen again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/new-24-7-service-passport-office-inaugurated-in-karachi\/\">Senior Superintendent of Police<\/a> (SSP) Abdul Qayyum told Independent Urdu that police responded immediately after receiving a distress call. The sound of approaching sirens forced the robbers to abandon the victim and flee into the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Trail 7 has seen multiple robbery cases in recent years, including incidents involving foreign tourists. Although a police squad was formed to patrol Margalla trails, hikers say law enforcement is rarely seen on Trail 7.<\/p>\n<p>Some believe avoiding unsafe areas is the best precaution, while others argue that authorities must do more to ensure public safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A group of ten hikers was robbed at gunpoint on Islamabad&#8217;s Trail 7, with one of them briefly kidnapped for ransom before being rescued, police confirmed. The incident occurred on March 9 when the group had gone for hiking and Iftar. As they were returning around 6:40 pm, armed men intercepted them, stealing their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":67834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27111,27112,13660],"class_list":["post-67832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-expensive-mobile-phones","tag-hikers-robbed-at-gunpoint-on-islamabads-trail-7","tag-senior-superintendent-of-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67835,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67832\/revisions\/67835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}