MULTAN, Dec 21: Law-enforcers in Khanewal claim to have busted two alleged gangs of highwaymen and dacoits. The police claimed to have recovered Rs6.3 million of the plundered money from one of the gangs. Among other stolen goods recovered from the gangs were a car, pick-up, a tractor-trolley and motorbikes.
Ringleaders of both the gangs had also been rounded up. They were identified as Qasim of Faisalabad and Nasir Ali alias Nasiri of Kabirwala. The other arrested were Dildar, Ilyas and Riaz.
The Qasim gang was allegedly involved in 13 cases registered with various police stations of Khanewal, Multan and Muzaffargarh while the Nasir gang had seven cases lodged against them in Khanewal and Lodhran districts.
The Qasim gang had allegedly snatched Rs7 million in cash at gunpoint from staff of a cotton ginning factory when it was returning after drawing the amount from a bank in the precinct of Kabirwala city police station on Nov 1.
Similarly, the gang was held responsible for looting Rs1.3 million from the staff of a textile mill in the jurisdiction of the same Kabirwala city police station.
BZU: Dr Abdul Qadus Sohaib has been elected president of the Bahauddin Zakariya University's academic staff association on Tuesday. Dr Sohaib of the Teachers Forum bagged 129 votes while his opponent Prof Fayyaz Ahmad Husain of the teachers association could secure 91 votes.
The candidates from Teachers Forum won all the main seats of the BZUASA, except of the finance secretary, while five of the seven executive committee slots of the association were also won by the forum candidates.
Newly-elected office-bearers of the BZUASA are Dr Hakoomat Ali (vice-president), Dr Muhammad Khalid (secretary-general), Abdul Sattar Malik (joint secretary) and Shamsur Rehman (finance secretary).
The executive committee members are Dr Bashir Ahmad Lotharr, Dr Mutahir Iqbal, Dr Seema Mehmood, Prof Amjad Farooq, Prof Zubair Ahmad, Prof Khaqan Baber and Amer Nawaz. The last two executive committee members belonged to the panel of teachers association.
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