December 15, 2003	Monday	Shawwal 20, 1424

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GUJRANWALA, Dec 14: Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) chairman Makhdoom Amin Faheem has said that the campaign for restoration of the 1973 constitution and real democracy would continue at all public fora.

Speaking at a big public meeting at Sheranwala Bagh on GT Road here on Sunday evening, he demanded that the constitution be restored in its original form as people would not accept any amendment to it.

Former Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah said that the 1973 constitution was passed unanimously but the army rulers amended and destroyed it.

PML-N secretary-general Khwaja Saad Rafique, Punjab PML-N president Zulfiqar Ali Khosa, PDP president Nawabzada Mansoor Ahmed, PML-N’s Begum Tehmina Daultana, Punjab PPP president Qasim Zia, Naveed Chaudhry, local PML-N leader Ghulam Dastgir Khan, Usman Ibrahim, S.A. Hameed and PPP leader MNA Imtiaz Safdar Warraich and MPA Chaudhry Shabir also spoke on the occasion.

It was the first public meeting of ARD in Gujranwala.

ARRESTED: Two dacoits, who looted a bank some six months back, were arrested after an encounter with police here on Sunday.

DPO Saud Aziz on receiving information that the dacoits were present at Retanwala locality directed the Model Town police to conduct a raid there and arrest them. The police raided there, besieged the house and ordered the outlaws to surrender, but they opened fire on them. The outlaws laid down their arms when police returned the fire. The arrested dacoits were identified as Faisal Butt and Rahat Sajjad.

Police also recovered looted goods and illicit arms from their possession.

The DPO announced cash prizes and commendation certificates for members of the raiding party.

ARRESTED: The Cantonment police claimed to have found the clue of the murder of a motorcycle-rickshaw driver and arrested three accused, including a woman, in a raid on Sunday.

Amir, Azam and Rashida hired the motorcycle-rickshaw from the main bazaar and kidnapped driver Muhammad Jamil when the vehicle reached a deserted place.

They detained him in a house and then tortured him to death. Later, they threw his body near the bank of a pond and took away his vehicle. Police recovered the body and kept it at the police station where his heirs identified him. After piecing together reports, the police raided a place and arrested the killers.

A case has been registered against the accused.

KILLED: The son of an army officer was killed while some half a dozen others sustained injuries on Sunday in collision between two wagons on the GT Road, Rahwali.

The wagon (LOT-4713) was on its way to Gujranwala when it crashed into another oncoming wagon (ADA-1479), killing Iqbal instantly and injuring some six other passengers.

SUICIDE: A jobless youth committed suicide by taking poisonous pills in Naushera Virkan on Sunday.