Islamabad police arrest 20,883 suspects, recover Rs1.62bn in ten months
The arrests include 1,197 members of 509 gangs the police link to robbery, street crime, house burglary and vehicle theft, according to figures released through APP.
Islamabad Capital Territory police arrested 20,883 suspects in the first ten months of 2026 and recovered stolen property worth more than Rs1.62 billion, according to figures the force released through the Associated Press of Pakistan on Monday.
The arrests included 1,197 members of 509 criminal gangs, which the police listed as involved in robbery, street crime, house burglary and vehicle theft.
An ICT police official told APP that the arrests came in targeted operations against criminal gangs, proclaimed offenders and drug dealers. The figures cover January to the end of October.
APP put the value of the recovered property at "over Rs1.62 billion". ARY News and the Daily Independent carried the same amount in their reports of the announcement, and the Daily Independent described the number of suspects arrested as "over 20,800", a rounding of the same total.
Only APP published the gang breakdown, listing 509 gangs and the 1,197 members arrested from them, together with the four categories of crime the police attached to those gangs.
A proclaimed offender is a suspect a court has declared an absconder. APP did not name the official who gave the figures, and neither ARY News nor the Daily Independent named an official in its report.
The APP report did not say how the recovered property divided among the four categories of crime, how much of it has been returned to its owners, or how many of the 20,883 suspects have been charged.
The ten-month period runs from January to the end of October. Arrests and recoveries made in November and December are not part of the total.
How the reports differ
The Associated Press of Pakistan alone carried the gang breakdown: 509 gangs, the 1,197 members arrested from them, and the four crime categories the police attached to those gangs. ARY News led its report on the value of the recovered property, the same Rs1.62 billion figure the other two published. The Daily Independent rounded the arrests to "over 20,800" while giving the recovery as Rs1.62 billion.
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