LAHORE: Police claimed on Tuesday to have seized a huge cache of illegal weapons and arrested a suspect.

City Division Superintendent of Police Adil Memon told reporters that the illegal weapons were being transported from Peshawar to Lahore. A police team apprehended a suspect in the jurisdiction of Shahdara police station on a tip-off.

Shahdara police tracked and arrested Faheem Sarfaraz, a resident of Kohat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, when he was transporting the weapons.

The weapons confiscated by police included 12 repeater guns, 33 pump action, three riffles of 44 bore, 48 pistols of 30 bore, and more than 4,200 live bullets, Memon said.

He said the arrest came in the wake of a crackdown on illegal weapons, which was accelerated on the directives of Deputy Inspector General (Operations) Dr Haider Ashraf.

OVERSEAS: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) retired Capt Amin Wains resolved a property dispute of an overseas Pakistani woman on Tuesday.

The CCPO was heading a meeting of the District Overseas Pakistanis Committee at his office here. Applications regarding property, business and transactional disputes were presented at the meeting.

Germany-returned Tasleem Farrukh had presented an application to the commission that Chaudhry Naseer had illegally occupied her plot. CCPO Wains listened to both sides and with their mutual understanding, decided that Naseer will pay the price of the plot to Tasleem within a week.

She thanked the CCPO for a peaceful solution to her property dispute.

Published in Dawn, March 29th, 2017