BAHAWALPUR City News

PTI demonstration
From Our Correspondent
BAHAWALPUR: Hundreds of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf activists, including candidates for the local government polls, Sunday staged a protest demonstration outside Sadr Bahawalpur police station against detention of three PTI workers.
PTI district president Farzand Ali Gohar asked the SHO to release the detained workers. On refusal, the PTI district president turned violent and grappled with police cops present in the PS and the police closed the main gate besieged the workers and tortured. Later, DSP Sadar circle Rao Jamshed reached the PS and ordered the release of detainees and district president.

Three alleged robbers shot dead
From Our Correspondent
BAHAWALPUR: Three alleged dacoits were killed on Saturday night. At McLeod Gunj near Muhammadpur Maawan in Bahawalnagar district, two gangsters were shot dead by their accomplices. They were identified as Ijaz alias Boota, a resident of Shehr Fareed, and Muhammad Boota alias Booti Dacoit, a resident of Sahiwal district. According to the police, both had been arrested in a dacoity case and were being taken for recovery. Their six armed accomplices got them released after firing on the police van and also took away arms. The police chased them but they were shot dead by their accomplices. According to the police, they were wanted in more than 20 cases of robberies and murders in many districts in Punjab.
An unidentified gangster was shot dead by his accomplices near Fareed Shah Morr in Liaqatpur police limits in Rahimyar Khan. Reportedly, four gangsters attempted to steal a motorbike from Amjad. On resistance, they fired at him but a bullet hit one of the dacoits, who died on the way to hospital while his accomplices fled.