January 12, 2007	Friday	Zilhaj 21, 1427

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GUJAR KHAN, Jan 11: A group of transporters on Thursday continued with their onslaught on the students of a private college who they claimed had pelted a bus with stones.

Sources said a band of transporters riding a double-cabin vehicle Wednesday charged at students present outside the college located at Guliana Chowk on the G.T. Road. Firing in the air, the attackers started thrashing the boys and later picked up some of them.

They took the students to a local police station and tried to implicate them in a criminal case. However, on the intervention of their parents, the students were released the same day.

The said armed men on Thursday again stormed the bus stop, ‘abducted’ two students — Hifzan and Afzal — and took them to some unknown place.

The college management contacted the SDPO Gujar Khan who reportedly showed a lukewarm response in tackling the issue.

Later, a delegation of locals including the college principal met the District Police Officer (DPO) Rawalpindi and the Superintendent of Police (Rural), and apprised them of the incident details.

The two police officers directed the SDPO and SHO Gujar Khan to provide protection to the students, besides ensuring smooth flow of traffic on the G.T. Road.