May 12, 2007	Saturday	Rabi-us-Sani 24, 1428

SAHIWAL, May 11: Marriages are made in heavens and celebrated on Earth elsewhere but here if a wedding celebration clashes with the ruling party’s calendar, the festivity may end up in Police Lines.

On Friday, traffic police in a flurry of seizure of buses for the ruling party’s rally in Islamabad police got off wedding guests and grooms from two buses.

Two bridegrooms — Nasir Husain and Nazim Husain, both brothers — and their guests were travelling to Chak 93/6-R in a bus, LES-1055. But before both they could reach their in-laws’ house, their bus was intercepted by police, which took them to Police Lines, got them off and seized the bus.

Another bus, LWC-2550, carrying wedding guests from Lahore to Arifwala also got the same treatment by the police.

A third Sargodha-to-Fortabas bus carrying the family of Ghulam Qasim to an engagement ceremony was also engaged for the ruling party’s rally.

If wedding buses were treated so, a vehicle carrying a mourning family was also not spared. Ali Asghar Shah and his family, 40 people in all, were travelling in a bus, LSE-6219, from Bahawalnagar to Sheikhupura to mourn the death of their relative.

Police also impounded their bus.

In all police impounded 55 buses on Friday.

The district nazim gave one bus besides Rs20,000 to each union council nazim to carry people to Islamabad.