KARACHI: Interpol has requested Pakistan’s help in recovering a Range Rover Sport stolen from the United Kingdom, according to an official letter that surfaced this week, after British investigators traced the vehicle’s signal to Karachi earlier this year.
The communication, sent by Pakistan’s National Central Bureau of Interpol on Sept. 26, said UK authorities had asked local police to trace and locate the vehicle, stolen from the northern English town of Harrogate in November 2022.
The car, a black Range Rover Sport originally registered as MK70 OKW, was tracked to the Saddar area of Karachi in February through its onboard telematics system.
“We received a letter from Interpol ... requesting assistance in recovering a vehicle stolen from the UK,” said SSP Amjad Ahmed Shaikh, who heads the Anti-Car Lifting Cell of Karachi Police.
“Since the location they provided for this vehicle, stolen in 2022, was from February, we have emailed them to request the current location,” he added. “Once we receive the updated location, action will be initiated and the vehicle will be recovered.”
According to the letter, the UK police requested that Pakistani authorities make an attempt to trace and locate the vehicle.
The document said the Range Rover remained listed as stolen in the global Interpol database. It also identified the last known coordinates as Qur’angi Service Road, Azam Basti, Saddar Town, on Feb. 11.
The case was first flagged by Interpol Manchester, which informed Pakistan’s Interpol bureau about the vehicle being tracked to Karachi earlier this year.
