OKARA City News

UK Embassy info makes terror case serious
From Our Correspondent
OKARA: After information provided by the UK Embassy about its national Haq Nawaz arrested by Okara police, the nature of case has become serious from normal while the Interior Ministry is also showing interest in the case, The News learnt here.
The sources said that the Interior Ministry was considering awarding the Quaid-i-Azam Police Medal to the Okara DPO, considering the nature of the case.
Earlier, Okara DPO Faisal Rana had received a phone call from a person that if he did not ban dogfight in Haveli Lakha he would explode a bomb anywhere in the district. Similar phone calls were also received by the Faisalabad RPO, and the DPOs of Jhang, Jhelum and Bahawalpur. To it, the Okara DPO constituted a police team, which traced the phone call and arrested accused Haq Nawaz, a British national, of Dhoke Kangar from Sheikhupura and registered an FIR No-86/15 against him.
Police produced the accused in the court of Lahore ATC Judge Ayub Marth, who sent him to the Sahiwal Jail. On last Saturday, the Jhang Kotwali police station investigation officer appeared in the same court and told the judge that accused Haq Nawaz was already booked under an FIR No-104/15, in which he claimed that he was a member of Tehrik-e-Taliban and a close aide of Mullah Fazlullah. So, he must be handed over to Jhang police. To it, the judge asked him to approach the Okara district and sessions judge and apply for the custody of Haq Nawaz. Later, the IO met the Okara DPO and gave him a copy of FIR No-104/15, which he attached to FIR No-86/15 as an additional sheet.
The Jhang police filed an application for custody of the culprit in the court of the Okara district and sessions judge, but he rejected it and asked police to contact the Lahore ATC. To it, the Jhang police approached the Lahore ATC, which directed them to interrogate the culprit in the Sahiwal Jail.