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Constable, father booked for four murders
By our correspondent
PESHAWAR: The police have lodged a first information report against a police constable and his father under Anti-Terrorism Act in murder case of four sisters in Hashtnagri over a property dispute. The Gulfat Hussain Shaheed (formerly Hashtanagri) Police Station lodged the first information report in the murder of four sisters by a police constable, Fazal Hussain, and his father Fazal Qadir under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act. The four sisters killed in Mohallah Hussainia were laid to rest in their ancestral graveyard on Sunday. The accused had shot dead four sisters, Rani, Samrin, Farhana, Ruqayya, two of them married, in a street and inside their home. A son of one of the women was wounded in the firing just before Iftar on Saturday. According to police officials, the accused had some dispute with the girls’ father Mohammad Iqbal.

Police arrest robber in Lakki Marwat
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LAKKI MARWAT: The police claimed to have arrested a robber for depriving woman of gold ornaments in Surband village in the limits of Saddar Police Station on Saturday. Talking to The News, police spokesperson Shahid Hameed said that one Mir Hatim, resident of Surband, forced his entry into the house of Maulvi Ghulam Rasool the other day and decamped with gold ornaments from his wife, Islam Bibi. Taking serious notice of the incident, District Police Officer Ali directed the Station House Officer Irshadullah to arrest the robber. On the day of incident, the police party headed by SHO Irshadullah raided the house of the accused and arrested him.

102 Pakistanis deported from Saudi Arabia
RAWALPINDI: As many as 102 Pakistanis deported from Saudi Arabia arrived at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad on Sunday. All the deportees belong to Rawalpindi and Islamabad. They were arrested by Saudi authorities for having fake travelling documents and sent back to Pakistan aboard Saudi Airline flight SV 722, said an airport security official. The deportees were taken into custody by the Federal Investigation Agency for investigation.

Ailing Pashto singer seeks cash assistance
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CHAKDARA: Popular Pashto folk singer Khan Tahsil, who has been suffering from various diseases in recent years, has asked the provincial government to extend him financial help for his treatment. “I appeal to the culture minister and music lovers to help me financially so that I can get myself treated,” he said while talking to this scribe. Khan Tahsil said though he belonged to Serai Naurang tehsil in Lakki Marwat, he was currently living as a nomad in Shamsi Khan area in Lower Dir district.
He said he had been serving the Pashto language and culture since 1975, but he was now suffering from multiple health complications. “I have spent a lot of money on my treatment. I have borrowed money and am under debt now,” he added. The singer said former president Asif Ali Zardari conferred on him the pride of performance for his services in the field of Pashto folk music in 2011. He said that Awami National Party leader and former information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain had given him Rs100,000, but except that he had not received any help.

Driver killed as tractor falls into ravine
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HARIPUR: A tractor driver was killed when the vehicle fell into a ravine in the limits of Shah Maqsood union council. It was learnt that Javed Khan, a resident of Ghaiba village, was ploughing his fields when he lost control over the vehicle due to high speed and it plunged into a deep ravine. He was critically injured and taken to a nearby hospital where the doctors pronounced him dead. Meanwhile, a boy drowned in a dam while taking a bath in Chitti Dhaki village. His family said that Amin Khan, 22, who is the son of a newly elected councillor Arshad Khan, was taking bath along with his friends in Qazi Maira Dam when he drowned. His body was recovered after two hours.

Call for ruthless accountability of plunderers
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MULTAN: The National Labour Alliance on Saturday called for ruthless accountability of politicians and bureaucrats who plundered the national wealth and resources. The NLA chairperson Ghazi Ahmed Hassan Khokhar stated this after an executive committee meeting. He demanded recovery of all written-off loans with profit from influentials who had had gotten bank loans in the name of business crisis. The NLA demanded establishment of police stations at tehsil, district and division levels for accountability of plunderers, commission mafia and bank defaulters without political prejudices. Khokhar said time has come to prevent corrupt politicians from harming the country economically and politically. He said democracy has failed to deliver the masses.

PO wanted to Karachi Police arrested from Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Koral police Islamabad have arrested a proclaimed offender (PO) wanted to Karachi police in a murder case, a police spokesman said on Sunday. He said that SP (Rural) Yasir Afridi constituted special team for recovery of a kidnapped woman. This team headed by ASP, Bilal Zafar Sheikh including SHO Abid Ikram succeeded to recover the woman and nab the culprit Abrar s/o Anwar resident of Sahiwal.During the preliminary investigation, he also confessed to murder a person namely, Riaz in `Sukhan police area’ in Karachi and then came to Islamabad after escaping from there. SSP Islamabad Sajid Kiani appreciated this performance and directed to take further effective policing measures.

Five jail inmates released
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TOBA TEK SINGH: District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yar on Saturday visited the Central Jail and ordered release of five prisoners involved in petty crimes. The judge visited the jail and inspected its hospital and other sections and issued necessary orders on the spot. Jail Superintendent Jam Asif Iqbal briefed the judge about the arrangements made for prisoners at Sehr and Iftar timings. Senior Civil Judge Muhammad Usman was also accompanied by eth judge.

Woman kills her two children in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD: A woman axed to death her two kids after quarreling with her husband, in the area of Dijkot police station. According to police, Parveen Bibi, resident of Chak No.257-RB was reprimanded by her husband over some domestic issues. In a fit of rage, Parveen killed her daughter Mafia Bibi (6) and son Mubasshar (4) with an axe early Sunday morning. Both the children died on the spot. The accused fled the scene. On receiving information, the police reached the spot and took the bodies into custody and started investigation.

Cellphone shopkeepers in TT Singh
close businesses in protest
By our correspondent
TOBA TEK SINGH: Cellphone shop owners on Saturday closed their outlets as a protest against fruit vendors who attacked them in Shahbaz Chowk. The trouble began when some mobile phone shopkeepers asked fruit vendors not to restrict entry of their customers with their fruit carts in Shahbaz Chowk. This thing infuriated the fruit vendors and they attacked the cellphone shopkeepers and damaged their shops. After the incident, the city police arrested two vendors. The vendors said they were forced to vacate the area by the shopkeepers.

Three killed in separate Karak incidents
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KARAK: Three persons were killed and four others injured in two separate incidents in the district on Sunday, the police said. In first incident, two close relatives Naseeruddin, a primary schoolteacher, and Saqib Jameel, a technical college student, residents of Takht-i-Nusrati tehsil, drowned while swimming in Changhoze dam lake. The local divers were making efforts to recover the bodies. In separate incident, five youngsters received serious injuries when their motorcycles collided near Amankot area of Banda Daud Shah tehsil. Local people took the injured to the Civil Hospital Teri where one of them, identified as Habibullah, resident of Gurguri, passed away.

Shop gutted in Dera Murad Jamali
DERA MURAD JAMALI: A shop was gutted in the town due to electric short circuit, here on Sunday. Police said that fire erupted in a shop in Ward-2 area of the town, in which the goods present in the shop reduced to ash. The cause of the fire eruption was told to be electric short circuit.

Two killed in Peshawar clash
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PESHAWAR: Two persons were killed and five wounded in an exchange of fire in Sheikhabad locality on Sunday. The police said two groups first clashed over a petty issue, after which they opened fire on each other. Suleman and Inayat were killed and three other persons were wounded from one side while two others were injured from the other party.

Protest against loadshedding outside
minister’s house in Bahawalpur
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BAHAWALPUR: Residents of different localities on Sunday staged a demonstration against power loadshedding outside the residence of State Minister for Education, Professional Training and Interior Mian Baleeghur Rehman. The protesters gathered outside the residence of the state minister at Lakar Mandi Chowk and chanted slogans against electricity loadshedding and the government. The protesters blocked traffic on the Multan Road after burning tyres. It is pertinent to mention here that the people have started staging protests outside the residence of the minister even if any transformer burns in any locality of the city. Meanwhile, State Minister for Education and Interior Mian Baleeghur Rehman, while inaugurating the electricity supply scheme at Railway Muslim Town, said the Quaid-e-Azam Solar Energy Park near Bahawalpur would prove helpful in ending the energy crisis and curtailing the loadshedding.

Beheaded body of labourer found
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NOWSHERA: The beheaded body of a labourer, who went missing 20 days ago, has been found in the limits of Azakhel Police Station on Sunday, sources said. The sources said that a labourer, Rehman, hailing from Charsadda district, came to work on a brick kiln 20 days ago and went missing since then. His relatives registered a missing person report with the police when they failed to find him after searching him everywhere. Later, his beheaded body was found near the brick kiln. The body was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital in Nowshera for autopsy but the doctors refused to carry out medico-legal formality. The relatives staged a protest against the doctors in the hospital for not carrying out the autopsy.

Police claim killing assassin in Peshawar
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PESHAWAR: An alleged target killer wanted by the police in at least 21 cases was killed during an encounter in the limits of Yakatoot Police Station, officials said on Sunday. The police said Naseer alias Karichay of Hazarkhwani was killed during an encounter early Sunday. “He was a proclaimed offender and absconding in many cases and was also wanted in 21 cases of target killings. He had also killed two women of his area recently for his alleged relations with a girl,” Senior Superintendent of Police Operations Mian Saeed Ahmad said. He added that the slain man was acting as a hired assassin and also carried out targetted killings for proscribed groups.

Children who drowned in canal buried
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TOBA TEK SINGH: Three children of Chak 327/JB, who were drowned in Abbasia Canal near Rahimyar Khan on Saturday, were buried here on Sunday. Sami (12) and his sisters, Ayesha (10) and Maryam (5), children of Naveed, had gone to the house of their uncle Shafiqur Rehman in Rahimyar khan for spending summer vacation. On Saturday, Shafiq, his daughter and the three children were on their way when their car plunged into the canal and all five drowned. The bodies of Naveed’s children were brought here where scores of citizens attended their funeral prayers. Later, all three children were buried at a local graveyard.

Woman abducted in Daska
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DASKA: A married women was abducted from Bombanwala police limits. The wife of Ghulam Haider of Tajokey was on her way when two accused including Saleem allegedly abducted her.

10 PML-N activists acquitted
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GUJRANWALA: Judicial Magistrate Jameel Bhatti on Saturday acquitted 10 PML-N activists in a case. The PML-N activists including Suleman and Khalid Butt were accused of pelting the PTI long march with stones on Aug 15, 2014.

Married woman kidnapped
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PAKPATTAN: A married woman was abducted from Ganj Shakar Colony on Sunday. Six accused including Ghulam Rasool allegedly abducted the wife of Mehboob Shah. Police have registered a case.