January 7, 2003	Tuesday	Ziqa’ad 3, 1423

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BAHAWALPUR, Jan 6: Sarrafa bazaar and all other markets remained shut on Monday in protest against the murder of a jeweller.

The news of jeweller’s murder spread like a wildfire in the city and shopkeepers of Sarrafa bazaar and all other bazaars, plazas and shopping centres immediately closed their shops in protest.

Deceased Sajjad had two wives. One of them lives in Model Town. It is learnt that alleged accused Yasir had relations with the deceased’s second wife Rabia who along with Yasir killed Sajjad in her house. Later, they put the body in their car’s trunk and drove towards Liaquatpur to dispose it of safely. Their car was stopped on the way by the Feroza police for snap checking near Liaquatpur and recovered the body. Police took Yasir and Rabia into custody. The body has been sent to the Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital for the postmortem examination.

ELECTED: Shahid Fahim and Gulzar Ahmed Khan were elected on Monday unopposed the local district bar association’s vice-president and joint secretary, respectively.

Similarly, Hassan Mueen and Abdul Mannan Beg were also elected unopposed finance secretary and library secretary.

Three candidates — Afzal Bokhari, Maulvi Ziaul Hassan and M.B Hashmi have filed their nomination papers for the office of president the polling of which will be held on Jan 11.

Sardar Muhammad Asif, Khawaja Ghulam Murtaza and Wasiq Saeed Chaudhry are in the run for the office of the secretary-general. At least 10 candidates will fight for eight seats of the executive council.

STUDENT INJURED: A student of the SE College was allegedly shot at and injured seriously on Monday by his rivals outside Qasim hostel.

The incident was the sequel to a rivalry between the student groups of IJT and ATI. Ansar Ghaffar, an IJT activist, was stated to be in critical condition at a local hospital.

Police are going into the matter.

RESULTS: The Islamia University on Monday announced the results of history and Pakistan studies for the first annual examinations, 2002.