SUKKUR, Oct 14: Law enforcment agencies arrested 15 villagers in the Rehmatullah Bugti village at Sindh-Balochistan border on Monday and Tuesday on the charge of harbouring outlaws.

The Bhitai police with Rangers and Frontier Constabulary personnel cordoned off the village, directed the villagers to remain in their houses and conducted house-to-house search.

Then they arrested Waqar Ahmed Bugti, Sher Mohammad, Adlo Khan, Mohammad Aslam, Abdul Ghafoor, Wahid Bukhsh, Bangul Khan, Hameer Bugti and others.

Meanwhile, some outlaws attacked a police outpost near RD-109 in the border area on Monday night, the police said.

According to the police, the outlaws opened indiscriminate fire and also fired rockets. The law enforcing agencies retaliated as a result the outlaws fled towards Balochistan.

However, no casualty was reported.

KILLED: A woman, Darya Khatoon, was shot dead by her husband, Fazal Mehmood Tanwri, in the Haji Abdul Rauf Khoso village, near Guddu, on Tuesday.

In the Ghulam Qadir Bijarani village, near Tangwani, a villager, Ahmed Choliani, committed suicide due to domestic worries.

A labourer, Dastagir Pathan, was electrocuted in Kandhkot.

He belonged to Quetta and had come to the town to work there.

INJURED: Four prisoners— Ghulam Hussain, Imran Chachar, Rauf Jagirani and Tahir Jagirani— were injured in a clash between two groups of prisoners near sessions court here on Monday.

After a police party brought a group of prisoners to the court for the hearing of a murder case, both the groups clashed with each other, using stones and sticks.

Later, the police registered a case against 12 prisoners.

ARRESTED: A strong contingent of police raided five villages of Moro taluka, Nawabshah district, including Maula Bukhsh Samejo and Sadhuja, on Sunday and arrested five persons.

Those arrested included Dadan and Kadan Chandio.

The police refused to tell the reason behind their arrest.

However, informed sources said that they were arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a doctor who was kidnapped from Nawabshah a month ago and released recently.

ARRESTED: The FIA arrested an income tax officer, Ghulam Mustafa Mari, from his house here on Sunday for possessing a fake BA degree.

Mari was appointed in the income tax department in 1994.

NAZIM: The district Nazim, Sukkur, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, has said that ownership rights would be granted shortly to the residents of Barrage Colony.

He said that the chief minister, Sindh, would soon announce a package regarding the supply of clean drinking water and better educational and health facilities for the residents of Sukkur and its adjoining areas under President Musharraf’s devolution programme.

While inaugurating additional classes in the elementary school in Barrage Colony on Monday, the district Nazim said that the Government of Sindh under the directives of President Musharraf would award scholarships to talented students, which would be announced by Sardar Ali Mohammad Khan Mahar on Oct 15 at Sukkur.

He said that in comparison to the last 54 years, record development works had been carried out in Sindh, including Sukkur district, the credit for which goes to President Musharraf alone.

He said that 1,000 jobs would be provided to jobless people in Sukkur district and the industries of Sukkur would be revived to curb joblessness.

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