TOBA TEK SINGH: Four officers of a microfinance bank have been booked by the Faisalabad Roshanwala police on Sunday for allegedly harassing a woman.

The complainant said in the FIR that her husband, a powerloom factory worker, had obtained a Rs100,000 loan from the said bank. She said that her phone number was on the application form on which she received a call from the branch manager. She claimed that he offered to approve another Rs500,000 loan and asked her to visit the branch.

She claimed that she along with her husband went to the branch but the manager was non-cooperative. She claimed that he again called her and asked her to come alone and also made some lewd remarks repeatedly. She claimed that she blocked his phone number but he kept harassing her through phones belonging to two of his colleagues, who she claimed also harassed her.

The victim said that she lodged a complaint to the bank’s area manager, who called her, her husband and the three accused in a mosque. There, she said that he heard all the parties and assured them to take action against the officials. However, she claimed that not only no action was taken against the officials but their loan request was also rejected.

No arrest has been made so far and police are investigating.

PLASTIC BAGS: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has seized three trucks and took more than 27,900kg of plastic shopping bags weighing less than 75 microns in Faisalabad.

An EPA official said that an operation against ‘illegal’ shopping bags was carried out in the Model Town locality on Sunday.

The official said that upon receiving information, an EPA team headed by Deputy Director Dr Muhammad Tahir Abbas impounded trucks and took the plastic bags into custody.

ORCHARD: A tree replantation orchard is being established at Bagh Jinnah in Faisalabad and a similar garden will also be established at the Kaleem Shaheed Park.

The orchard is in the process of replanting 795 trees that fell on the Metro Bus Project routes and 242 trees have been replanted so far while 100pc of the trees will be replanted by November.

Commissioner Dr Imran Hamid Sheikh visited Bagh Jinnah, Kaleem Shaheed Park and the Dhobi Ghat Ground on Sunday and inspected the ongoing process of replanting. Horticulture Agency Director General Dilawar Khan Chadhar briefed him on the replanting process.

The commissioner asked the citizens to plant as many trees as possible and nurture them to increase the green cover and protect the environment.

ENCOUNTER: Two alleged robbers were killed in an alleged encounter with the Samundri Crime Control Department (CCD) in Faisalabad late on Saturday night.

Police sources claimed that both suspects had shot and critically injured a policeman during a dacoity and they were chased by a CCD team led by In-charge Hafiz Amer Farman Gujjar. The police sources claimed that six suspects riding motorcycles opened fire on the team near Chak 508 GB in Mamukanjan area and the policemen retaliated in self-defence.

When the firing stopped, police claimed to have found two suspects injured by the firing of their accomplices, who had escaped. They succumbed to their injuries on the way to the hospital, police claimed.

They were identified as Zafar Iqbal of Sahiwal and Nazir Ahmad of Chak 194 GB, Toba Tek Singh.

Meanwhile, a man identified as Ghulam Muhayyddin, accused of strangling his three-year-old stepdaughter in Chak 543 GB a few days ago, was killed in an alleged encounter with the Garh police in Tandlianwala tehsil. Police sources claimed that he was being taken to identify the location where he killed the minor girl when his accomplices opened fire on the police van and freed him from the police team.

Police claimed that he was shot and killed in the crossfire by the bullets fired by his accomplices.

FACTORY ACCIDENT: A fiber glass manufacturing factory worker died after being crushed by a glass cutting machine on Sunday in the FIEDMC Sahianwala industrial area in Chak Jhumra, Faisalabad.

Rescue 1122 officials said deceased Muhammad Shahbaz (32) of Bahawalnagar was working on the machine when he got struck in it and he was gravely injured by the machine’s blades. He died on the spot.

ACCIDENT: A teenage biker died and two women riding pillion were critically injured when the speeding motorcycle collided with an electric pole on the Khurrianwala-Jhandwali Road on Sunday.

The deceased was identified as Raees Ahmad (17) and women as Razia Bibi and Shahnaz Bibi, who had been shifted to the Allied Hospital for treatment.

Published in Dawn, September 21st, 2026