21 January 2005	Friday	10 Zilhaj 1425

LAHORE, Jan 20: City Police claimed on Thursday to have arrested the killer of PML joint secretary Shaukat Abbas. The PML office-bearer was found murdered in his rented house in Ghaziabad on Tuesday.

A police team headed by SP Cantonment Waseem Ahmed took the deceased's second wife Shaista into custody who confessed to the crime. During interrogation, the accused said that her husband and she had differences over some issue.

On Tuesday last, Shaukat beat her up on a trivial matter, she said, adding that she had killed him with a blunt weapon and a knife when he was asleep. A case has been registered against the accused.

ROBBERY: Robbers struck thrice and made off with cash, jewellery and valuables worth over Rs1 million in the city on Thursday. Farhan Naseem was going along with his family in a car when his vehicle was intercepted by six armed men on Wahdat Road. They deprived the family of cash and jewellery worth Rs500,000.

Four armed men entered into a plaza in the Sattukatla police station limits and made off with cash and valuables worth Rs250,000 from the shops of three real estate shops.