February 22, 2002	Friday	Zilhaj 9, 1422

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ATTOCK, Feb 21: The Pindigheb police on Thursday claimed to have registered a murder attempt case against four people.

Muhammad Sadiq’s wife Bakht told police that the accused barged into her house when the inmates were asleep, bagged Rs6,000 in cash and gold ornaments and shot at and injured her on resistance.

The case was registered against four people including Muhammad Sadiq, Asif Ali, Nasir Husain and Khizar Husain, all hailing from Mianwala village.

Meanwhile, the Attock police claimed to have recovered two pistols, a 12-bore rifle and 20 bullets without licences from Ghulam Shabbir of Hattian, Muhammad Zahid of Rangu and Mustbar Khan in different raids.

A case was registered by the same police against four brothers, including Arshad Iqbal, Tariq and Arif, on the charge of returning loan to one Ahmad Akram in the form of fake cheque of Rs325,000.

ASSAULTED: A 13-year-old boy was sexually abused by two co-villagers in Lengher village, Jand police station.

The victim reported to police that he was on his way back home from the railway station when Azmat and Nasir forcibly took him away at a haveli. He said they assaulted him and dragged him out of the haveli nude.

He was taken to a nearby hospital by the villagers in critical condition.

Police have registered a case.

EXPIRED: Attock Press Club Secretary-General Syed Raza Haider Naqvi’s father-in-law Syed Muhammad Amir Naqvi expired in district Bulland Shehar, Utter Perdaish, India, after a protracted illness on Wednesday.