BAHAWALPUR: The two-and-a-half years old girl who was abducted from Lodhran on Eid day was dropped by her kidnappers at Bahawalpur Zoo on Wednesday night.

Hurain was standing at the gate of her house in the Al-Noor Garden locality of Lodhran when she was kidnapped by four car riders.

Police spokesman Khan Bahadur said the suspects had demanded Rs6m ransom for the release of Hurain. Their facilitators, including two women, have been arrested.

One of the women suspects had made the demand for ransom from the family of Hurain through her cell phone.

The spokesman claimed that the police were alert and due to the steps taken by police, the kidnappers could not shift the child outside the Bahawalpur city.

At last, they dropped the girl at the zoo. He added 10 teams of police were working to trace the girl and they had got help from the footage of 350 CCTV cameras.

After the girl was found, District Police Officer Kamran Mumtaz himself took to her parents and delivered them at their residence last night.

BWMC: Bahawalpur Waste Management Company (BWMC) Chief Executive Officer Naeem Akhtar says that during the Eid holidays, 1,000 employees performed their duties round the clock and removed 7,000 tonnes of waste and offal of sacrificial animals from the city.

He was addressing a media talk here on Thursday where a briefing was given about three-day Eid sanitation work in the city.

Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Malik Zaheer Iqbal Channar, Bahawalpur Deputy Commissioner Zaheer Anwar Jappa and MPA Dr Rana Muhammad Tariq were also present.

Mr Channar appreciated the performance of the BWMC during the Eid days, saying that according to the vision of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, the Suthra Punjab campaign was in full swing. He added that the sphere of BWMC would also be extended to the rural areas in the division. He assured completion of pending and delayed uplift projects in the city.

DC Jappa said the Asian Development Bank (ADB) had approved a financial grant of Rs400m for the BWMC. He said the ADB financial grant would be utilised for the improvement of the city’s underground drainage system and waste management in the city. He said about 50 years old underground sewerage urgently needed to be replaced.

MPA Dr Rana Tariq said the ADB’s financial assistance would be a self-sustainable programme with the recycling plan for the city’s waste.

The BWMC CEO said the ADB’s assistance would also be utilised for the development of landfill and dumping sites in the suburbs of the city.

Vehari DC Syed Asef Hussain Shah and Lodhran Abdul Rauf Mahar also spoke.

Published in Dawn, June 21st, 2024