March 29, 2002	Friday	Muharram 14, 1423

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SIALKOT, March 28: A teenager was grievously injured in Indian shelling on Tara Joyiaan village, Charwa sector of Sialkot working boundary on Thursday.

Official sources told Dawn that Kamal Ahmad, 14, was standing in the street when the bullets hit him. He was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in critical condition.

The Indians on Thursday continued shelling in Chhumb, Joriyaan (Gujrat), Shakargarh, Bajwat, Harpal, Sucheetgarh, Charwa, Chaprar, Jammu, Saamba, Akhnoor and Shakargarh-Narowal sectors, badly damaging six houses, the sources confirmed.

No casualty has yet been reported.

HELD: The Sialkot-based intelligence agencies on Thursday held three trained agents of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) from Riah Railway Station near Narang Mandi.

Official sources told newsmen that agents Jamil alias Akbar, Mustafa and Shahbaz alias Sajjad belonged to Gujranwala division.

The agencies also recovered a map of Lahore Cantonment, lethal weapons and several objectionable documents from their possession.

They had been shifted to an unknown place for further investigation, they added.

REMAND: Judicial magistrate Sialkot Civil Judge Rafaqat Ali Gondal has given a five-day remand of Muradpur police station’s SHO, inspector Zafar Iqbal and sub-inspectors Rana Basharat and Muhammad Iqbal for killing a Head Marala-based journalist and councillor Jaffar Khan in a shootout.

Some other accused policemen are still at large.