Over Rs0.8m looted in two strikes

Published January 9, 2006

TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 8: Dacoits plundered cash and valuables worth Rs500,000 from the house a UK-returned man here on Saturday night. Hakim Naseer Ahmad of Rail Bazaar informed police that he and his family were asleep when four dacoits forced their entrance into the house and held them up.

The dacoits, he said, took away ornaments worth Rs400,000 and Rs135,000 in cash.

Police said one of the robbers was nabbed and handed over to the law enforcers, who had started investigation.

In another incident, armed men took away cash and ornaments worth more than Rs300,000 from the outhouse of farmer Asad at Chak 189-GB near Rajana.

NAZIM: District nazim Chaudhry Abdul Sattar has said if the government will not construct Kalabagh dam, no ruler in future will be able to accomplish this task.

In a press statement issued here on Sunday, he stated that all those who were opposing the project on one pretext or the other were stoking hatred among the provinces.

The Pakistan Air Force Shorkot Rafiqui Airbase commander, Air Commodore Muhammad Hasan, has stressed the need for eliminating birds which cause accidents of planes.

Speaking at a meeting at the air base in Toba Tek Singh on Sunday, he claimed that these birds sometimes appeared like bullets and cause immense damage. These birds were found mostly in areas where fish or poultry farmers threw the dead animals in the open.

District Nazim Chaudhry Abdul Sattar, Toba DCO Nawazish Ali, Jhang DCO Arif Khan, Kamalia Tehsil Nazim Mahmoodul Hassan Jat and various nazims of area union councils were present.

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