CHAKWAL, April 25: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)’s Chakwal chapter secretary-general Malik Kifayat Hussain was on Wednesday detained for 30 days under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) and sent to the district Jail Mianwali.
It is learnt that PML-N youth wing leader Chaudhry Tahir Iqbal and PPP’s Shah Jahan Sarfraz Raza have also been detained. President Tanzim Tahaffuz Haqooq-i-Sheharian Qazi Ghulam Abbas was sent to the Mianwali jail on Tuesday.
In the meantime, the lawyers community here observed one hour’s strike on Wednesday to express solidarity with the chief justice of Pakistan. Chaudhry Sher Baz and Raja Mamraiz attended the hunger strike camp set up by the District Bar Association.
ACCIDENT: A motorcyclist was killed in a road accident on the Choa Syedan Shah road near village Shah Said Bulhho on Wednesday.
Qamar Sultan was going to his village when a truck (GLT-9582) going in front of him suddenly applied brakes. The motorcyclist rammed into the vehicle and died on the spot.
BOOKED: The Kalar Kahar police have booked a man on the charge of stealing a 22-bore rifle of his employer in village Miani.
SENTENCED: Judicial Magistrate Saleem Iqbal
Awan sentenced a man to eight months’ RI along with a fine of Rs10,000 in an eight year-old case.