TOBA TEK SINGH: Two car riders kidnapped and gang-raped a woman at Gojra on Tuesday.

The complainant from Dijkot (Faisalabad) informed police in her FIR registered by Gojra city police that she was waiting for a bus at Katcha Gojra Chowk when two unidentified car riders offered her a ride. They took her away to an undisclosed place where they gang-raped her and threw her at Kutchery Chowk.

Also, at Gojra, unidentified people kidnapped Kashaf Shahid, 19.

Her grandfather, Munir Ahmad, from Sitara Colony, told Gojra City police that Kashaf went to the bazaar for shopping, from where unidentified people kidnapped her.

KILLED: A youth was shot dead by unidentified persons at Jhang on Tuesday.

Mulazim Hussain, of Ahmadpur Sial tehsil in Jhang, informed Garh Maharaja police that his son, Kaleem Abbas, was returning home on his motorcycle on Layyah Road from Garh Mor when two unidentified motorcyclists opened fire on him near Adda Kapoori. He was critically wounded.

He was being shifted to Ahmadpur Sial THQ hospital but succumbed on the way.

PROTEST: Scores of people from villages located on Sargodha Road in Faisalabad blocked traffic in protest at continuous robberies in the precincts of Pul Dangru police post of Nishatabad police.

They said that motorcyclists and motorists were being looted every night by gunmen even though the police post was very near. They alleged police arrived at the robbery place with much delay.

Police officers held talks with protesters and assured them that strict patrolling by policemen would be arranged in the future on the road, after which they ended their protest.

BOOKED: Faisalabad’s Balochni police booked 17 wedding guests on Tuesday, including five nominated, for resorting to celebratory aerial firing at a mehndi function of Waseem in Chak 56-RB, Rajaywala.

They arrested Muhammad Waqas and recovered an unlicensed Kalashnikov from him.

Complainant SHO Razaul Mustafa claimed in his FIR that after a viral video of the aerial firing, a case was registered. He said the suspects were seen in the viral video, in which they were all firing.

ADJOURNED: Faisalabad’s Anti-Terrorism Court special judge Javed Iqbal Sheikh on Tuesday adjourned until Oct 30 the hearing of a case against 40 Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leaders and activists who were booked on May 9, 2023, on the charge of attacking the ISI building during riots.

The court also adjourned until Oct 31 the trial of more than three dozen PTI leaders and activists facing charges of attacking the house of former federal interior minister Rana Sanaullah.

Former assistant attorney general of Pakistan and counsel for the PTI accused persons, Malik Khalid Shafiq, told reporters that the court issued summons for the accused persons to appear in person in court on the next hearing.

Published in Dawn, October 23th, 2024