October 19, 2001	Friday	Shaba'an 1, 1422

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FAISALABAD, Oct 18: Kotwali police on Thursday claimed to have booked over two dozen religious leaders and representatives of trade bodies who were vocal against the government.

Cases have been registered against All Pakistan Anjuman-i-Tajran chairman Mian Abdul Mannan, city chairman Shaikh Taj Mahmood, vice chairman Shahid Razzaq Husain, city president Mahboobuz Zaman Butt, Pakistan Sipah-i-Sahaba leaders Maulana Mujeebur Rahman Ludhianvi, Allama Tahirul Hassan, renowned scholars including Sahibzada Tariq Mahmood, Mufti Ziaul Haq and several others.

Rallies are being taken out with growing zeal to condemn the US strikes against Afghanistan.

Cases were registered under sections 143, 144 PPC and 16 MPO. However, police have not so far been able to arrest the nominated persons.

ARRESTED: Police claimed to have arrested a child-lifter belonging to a tribal area and recovered two minors from his custody in Islamnagar on Thursday.

Suspicious of Gull Khan’s activities, people of the locality reportedly overpowered him and handed him over to the police.

During investigation, he confessed to being a member of a child-lifter gang and led the police to the recovery of Sajid and Waheed of Mustafabad.

Civil Lines police have registered a case against the culprit.

INJURED: Three labourers sustained injuries, one of them critical, when a boiler burst in a local textile mills on the Maqbool Road on Thursday.

Dozens of labourers were reported to be working in the Alhamra Textile Mills when the boiler burst. Muhammad Shafiq, Asif and Mudassar Husain sustained serious injuries. They were taken to the DHQ Hospital where the condition of Mudassar was stated to be critical.