FAISALABAD, Nov 8: Uniden-tified gunmen shot dead a union council nazim and seriously injured three others in Chak 67 JB in the Thikriwala police limits on Tuesday night.

Muhammad Afzal, 28, nazim of union council No 155, was sitting outside his house along with a dozen notables of the area and friends when four people in a white Suzuki car sprayed them with bullets. Afzal, Mian Anwar, Ghulam Sarwar Qureshi and Malik Arshad sustained injuries while the attackers sped away firing shots in the air taking advantage of darkness.

The injured men were rushed to the Allied Hospital where nazim Afzal bled to death. The other three injured have been shifted to the intensive car unit.

Motive behind the attack could not be ascertained.

The DPO, the SP (investigation) and other senior police officials rushed to the spot and hospital.

Afzal was the son of Muhammad Irshad, an office-holder of the All-Pakistan Sizing Industries Owners Association.

CT scan: The veterinary scientists of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad have started using advance techniques like CT scan and MRI for diagnosis of brain defects in pet animals.

Dr Nadeem Aasi, Dr Shoaib, Dr Hammad Husain and Dr Ghulam Muhammad at the Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery of the university said they were the first to use CT scan and MRI to diagnose cerebellar hypoplasia in the pet animals in Pakistan.

They said scientists recently confirmed the occurrence of cerebellar hypoplasia in a pet cat presented at the outdoor clinic. The facilities for CT scan and MRI were not available at any of the veterinary hospitals in the country.

They said they conducted CT scan and MRI at two hospitals for humans to confirm the brain disorder in the cat. It revealed that the cat was suffering from cerebellar hypoplasia (under-development of a part of brain).

They said many humans and animals were born with this brain defect.