KARACHI: A vehicle of the Jang Group of Newspapers was torched by unidentified miscreants in the Aziz Bhatti Police limits in the wee hours of Monday.

Thousands of copies of Jang and The News were burnt to ashes. After coming to know about the incident, the Jang Group management printed the newspapers again and distributed these in the market.The incident of burning of the vehicle took place near Hassan Square, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, at about 4:30am.

New Town’s Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Nasir Lodhi said responding on information, the police immediately rushed to the spot where they found a hi-roof on fire and a driver was standing near it.

Police immediately called the fire fighters and extinguished the fire. Later, they questioned the driver of the van, Mohammad Nisar, who narrated that he was an employee of the Jang Group and it was his daily duty to deliver the copies of Jang and The News at various stalls of the city.

He said as per his daily routine, he was supplying copies of the newspapers at different stalls when near Hassan Square two unidentified armed miscreants came to him and asked about his identity.

The driver said he told the miscreants that he belonged to the Jang Group after which the miscreants took out a bottle of chemical and poured it on the vehicle which suddenly caught fire. The miscreants fled afterwards. The hi-roof contained thousands of copies which were reduced to ashes in the incident.Police have lodged an FIR and are investigating.