TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of forest department employees staged on Wednesday a demonstration outside Forest Park on Jhang Road to register their protest against the new policy under which employees were being transferred out of their home district.

Addressing the protesters, forest department employees association president Nasir Mahmood, vice president Khurram Ali and general secretary Asim Javed said their patrolling allowance had also been withheld and auction of dried leaves of trees was not being conducted. They said if they were transferred to other districts, employees would not only have to bear expenditures for residing there but they would also lose their service seniority.

They claimed that dried leaves of trees had not been auctioned for the last several months and when leaves spoiled or disappeared, money had been deducted as compensation from their salaries.

KIDNAPPED: A retired deputy superintendent of police, Saeed Akhtar Tatla, was allegedly kidnapped in Afshan Colony of Faisalabad.

According to the first information report registered by Civil Lines police on Wednesday under section 365 of Pakistan Penal Code, complainant Kanooz claimed that his father went out of his cloth trading business office on Oct 26 to offer Asr prayers but did not return.

He said all efforts to find him had failed.

POLIO WORKERS LOOTED: Robbers looted four anti-polio female workers in Gojra tehsil near Nawan Lahore on Wednesday.

Reports said Attiqa, Bushra, Eisha and Asma were on way to perform polio vaccination duty on a link road when two robbers riding a motorcycle intercepted them at gunpoint and made off with their mobile phones, ATM cards and cash. They also deprived bank staffer Muhammad Boota and government school teacher Muhammad Asif of their mobile phones and cash in same area.

DEATH SENTENCE: Faisalabad Additional District and Sessions Judge Saqib Farooq handed down on Wednesday death sentence and a fine of Rs0.5 million to Shahzad Ghous of Balochni locality and imprisonment for life to his two accomplices Manzoor Ahmad and Ghulam Meeran in a triple murder case.

The prosecution said two years ago they had shot dead their three opponents Anwarul Haq, Muhammad Arshad and Muhammad Nadeem with whom the convicts had litigation over property dispute.

MURDER CASE RESOLVED: Police claimed on Wednesday to have resolved murder case of a woman and arrested her suspected killer.

According to a police spokesperson, the victim, Sakina Bibi, was asleep in an outhouse at Chak Jhumra, where she was staying to tend to her animals on the night of Sept 9, when she was found murdered. The police have identified and arrested the alleged killer, Muhammad Usman, a resident of the same area. The spokesperson added that an investigation is ongoing to determine the motive behind the murder.

In a similar case, police also claimed solving the murder of Shahbaz Ahmad, which occurred on the night of May 17 in the same police precinct. Ahmad was reportedly asleep in a cattle shed adjacent to his house when he was shot dead. Police have arrested his younger brother, Shahnaz Ahmad, who allegedly killed him over a property dispute.

KILLED: Robbers killed a hotel owner over resistance and injured critically another on Millat Road in Faisalabad late on Tuesday night.

Sargodha Road police said three outlaws came to the hotel and picked up Rs60,000 from the counter and when two of the owners offered resistance, they opened fire on them as a result both identified as Rashid and Asghar were injured. They were shifted to Allied hospital where Rashid succumbed to his injuries.

Published in Dawn, October 31st, 2024