Police besiege villages in Okara: Tenants’ moot in Lahore
OKARA, Dec 9: Police on Monday surrounded villages 8/4-L, 10/4-L, 11/4-L and 13/4-L to stop tenants of military farms from participating in a convention to be held on Tuesday in Lahore.
The Anjuman-i-Mazareen planned to hold a provincial convention of tenants. It invited tenants of military farms to attend the moot to be held at a place near PTV centre in Lahore from where they planned to stage a demonstration in front of the Punjab Assembly building. Police set up pickets to stop tenants from going out of their villages.
However, police high-ups, when contacted, denied besieging the villages. They said it was regular police patrol of the area.
Meanwhile, tension is high in the area.
SUICIDE: Two men allegedly committed suicide in the district.
Sakhi Muhammad’s wife Ashraf left for her parents home along with her three minor daughters after a quarrel with him over a trivial issue in village Kutcha Tandlianwala. He tried his best to placate his wife and followed her to the bus stop, but to no avail.
Sakhi took pesticide in disappointment. He was taken to the DHQ Hospital where he died a few hours after arrival.
MURDER: Ahmad Hasan Bhatti, 20, of Satgrah was found hanging with a rope tied to the girder of veranda of his dera early on Monday morning.
It is learnt that his father Ghulam Rasool Bhatti was murdered.
It is still to establish whether he committed suicide or he had been murdered.
Satgrah police are investigating.
SHOT AT, INJURED: Fourteen armed men shot at and injured four workers of the gaddi nashin of a shrine over the dispute of sajjada nashini in village 37/D.
Syed Wali Haider Shah, sajjada nashin of Hazrat Shah Aman’s shrine, had set up a fish farm near it.
On Sunday, Mansha, Shafqat, Hanif and Yasin were working at the farm when Javid Shah, Ghaffar, Nazir, Farooq Azam and their unidentified accomplices came there. They sought whereabouts of Wali Shah who was not present there. When they showed their ignorance about him, they started shooting at the workers. They fled from the scene after injuring them.
The injured were taken to hospital where the condition of Hanif was stated to be critical.
Police are investigating.