Briefs

Briefs

PML-F wins Gambat Ward No2 election

By our correspondent

SUKKUR: PML-F’s Maulvi Naimatullah Shaikh won the election of Gambat Ward No 2 of the local bodies held on Thursday. He secured 547 votes against his closest rival, a PPP candidate, who could get only 290 votes. TMA Gambat has 13 wards, and the PML-F and the PPP had an equal number of seats until Thursday’s elections. Now by virtue of the  results of Ward No 2, the PML-F is most certain to secure the post of the Taluka chairman. Syed Ismail Shah Rashdi, a PML-F leader, said that his party’s winning the election of Gambat Ward No 2 clearly proved that the PPP was not a popular party in Sindh anymore.

Kidnapped child recovered

By our correspondent

SUKKUR: Police claimed to have recovered a child who had been kidnapped two months ago from Rohri. According to a police spokesman, Sukkur police secured the release of Anees Ahmed Burriro after an encounter in Ghouspur between the police and the kidnappers who might have succeeded in shifting the child to some other hideout if the police had not taken action on time. The spokesman said that two alleged kidnappers had been arrested.

Bodies of trader, child recovered

By our correspondent

SUKKUR: Body of a trader was recovered. The trader had gone missing three days ago. The body of Kashif Munir Pathan was recovered from a sugarcane plantation near Obaro.  Police said investigation was on to ascertain facts surrounding the death of the trader. Meanwhile, Kashif’s father, Muneer Ahmed Pathan, told the police that his son had not had any enmity with anyone. In a separate development, body of a nine-year-old child, Sadia, was recovered from a pond near Gambat.

Two electrocuted in Sukkur

By our correspondent

SUKKUR: Two children were electrocuted in Larkana.  Seven-year-old Tahir Ali and nine-year-old Ghulam Abbas Channa accidentally stepped onto some live wires which killed them. Parents of the ill-fated children said that their children died because of negligence on part of Sepco.