TOBA TEK SINGH: Police arrested a man for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl, who is a classfellow of his daughter, in Basti Khokhranwali in Kabirwala area of Khanewal.
According to the FIR, the victim’s uncle said in his complaint that his niece M was a classfellow of the accused A’s daughter. He claimed that she was standing outside the school on Saturday to go home when the accused offered to drop her home. He claimed that he took the girl to his house where he raped her by threatening to kill her.
The Kabirwala City police have arrested the accused.
Meanwhile, the Nankana Syedwala police booked a man on Sunday for raping a married woman in Mouza Ali Nagar in Syedwala.
In her complaint, the victim claimed that six months ago her husband was not at home due to his job, the accused climbed into her house and raped her at gunpoint. She claimed that he had made a video of the act and had repeatedly raped her by blackmailing her. She claimed that he again raped her on Saturday night.
Police were conducting raids to arrest the accused.
TRADERS BOOKED: The Jaranwala City police booked 71 traders for blocking the GTS Road outside the municipal committee on Sunday.
Police Sub-Inspector Manzoor Hussain claimed in the FIR that shopkeepers, including Anjuman Tajiran President Abdul Ghaffar Sheikh, five other nominated office-bearers of different trader organisations and 65 unidentified traders, staged a protest against auctioning their shops and blocked the road while the auction of the MC shops was underway.
No arrest has been made so far.
KIDNAP: A girl was allegedly kidnapped and her brother was shot and injured while attempting to save her in Chak 285 JB on Sunday.
The Gojra Saddar police said complainant Ghulam Murtaza informed them that his daughter Zari Bibi (15) was at home when Abdul Jabbar of Sahiwal came along with his accomplices. They bundled her into their van and when his son Waris Ali tried to rescue her, they opened fire and he was critically wounded. They fled away while his injured son had been shifted to the Gojra THQ Hospital for treatment, he said.
Meanwhile, two motorcycle riders attempted to steal a goat of a child shepherd identified as Ahmad Ilyas (12) when he was grazing them in the fields in Chak 373 JB of Gojra. When he offered resistance, they shot and injured him and fled without taking away his goat. The injured child had been shifted to the Gojra THQ Hospital for treatment.
PARKING PLAZAS: To solve the parking problems in the vicinity of eight bazaars around Faisalabad’s Ghanta Ghar, five parking plazas are under construction at a cost of Rs1.6 billion and are set to be completed by March 2027.
In a meeting on Sunday with traders, Commissioner Dr Imran Hamid Sheikh said that parking plazas were being constructed on Rajbah Road, outside Karhan Bazaar, Aminpur Bazaar, Kachehri Bazaar, Central Imambargara Road, Douglas Pura, Site A and Site B.
He said that providing a conducive business environment to traders and shopkeepers was one of the priorities of the Faisalabad administration.
Municipal Corporation Chief Officer Usman Ghani, ACs Rangzeb Goraya and Dr Zeeshan Ahmed were also present.
WHEAT TARGET: Punjab Agriculture (Extension) Director General Chaudhry Shahbaz Akhtar has said that a target of 1.83 million acres has been set for Faisalabad division for wheat sowing in the Rabi season.
Chairing a meeting in Faisalabad on Sunday, he directed officials of his department to launch an awareness campaign to ensure timely wheat cultivation from Nov 1 to Nov 20. He said the farmers should be encouraged to use certified seeds and sow wheat through modern mechanical cultivation, especially super seeder, to achieve at least a three-maund increase in average yield per acre.
Director Agriculture Chaudhry Khalid Mahmood was also present.
ACCIDENT: A teenage labourer died after a large pillar collapsed on him near the Gutwala toll plaza on Sunday.
According to Rescue 1122, the deceased was dismantling part of a pillar of a plaza for reconstruction, when the pillar suddenly fell on him. He was identified as Saqlain Waris (16).
FIRING INCIDENT: Three farmers were allegedly injured in a cross fire between two groups in Chak 429 GB of Tandlianwala tehsil.
Rescue 1122 officials said that two groups attacked each other over harvesting paddy crops. The wounded included Muhammad Yaqub (55), Saddam Hussein (35) and Ali Husnain (16), who had been shifted to the Tandlianwala THQ Hospital for treatment.
FUEL THEFT: The Thikriwala police have registered a case against nine nominated and their seven unidentified accomplices on Sunday for diesel theft from a Parco pipeline.
According to the FIR, registered on the complaint of Parco Assistant Security Officer Shakil Ahmad, the pipeline’s excavation work had went through the lands of the area’s landowners including Akram alias Akka, Faisal, Ramzan, Abdullah, Asif Dogar, all residents of Chak 73JB Chopal. He claimed that near the New City Housing Colony, Nasir, Naseer, Luqman and other suspects had stolen thousands of litres of fuel from the pipeline.
Raids were underway to arrest the accused persons.
Published in Dawn, September 28th, 2026
