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Rs 600 mn looted from Pak bank

KARACHI: In one of the biggest bank heists in Pakistan,a security guard and his accomplices looted a private bank and decamped with Rs 600 million in Karachi. The security guard let in two of his accomplices into the bank on Saturday night after it was closed and they first tied up two other guards and spent the whole night cutting through the vaults and collecting their loot,police said.

Kabul Mayor resigns over graft conviction

KABUL: The mayor of Kabul,convicted of corruption last week in the biggest case since President Hamid Karzai ordered a crackdown,relinquished his post on Sunday after days of defying prosecutors by continuing to go to work. Mayor Abdul Ahad Sayebi had given up his post and was replaced on Sunday by a caretaker,an official said. The mayor was sentenced to four years in jail last week. Sayebi was convicted of corruptly extending the lease of a market.