With a showman's flair and an outlaw's moustache, the Pakistani gangster dials the hotline on his own most wanted notice — taunting the authorities who put a bounty on his head.
Staring down the lens in a social media clip, Shahid Lund Baloch challenges the official on the phone and his thousands of viewers, saying, "Do you know my circumstances or my reasons for taking up arms?"
The 28-year-old is hiding out in riverine terrain in central Punjab that has long offered refuge to bandits — using the internet to enthrall citizens even as he preys on them, police say.
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