May 22, 2007	Tuesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 05, 1428

SAHIWAL, May 21: The Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) will strictly adhere to the charter of democracy to force the rulers to quit the government. This was stated by PPP secretary-general Jahangir Badr while addressing the Peoples’ Lawyers Forum here on Monday.

He said he was confident that the struggle of lawyers would succeed, and the PPP, after coming into power, would take action against those who torched the rally of lawyers in Sahiwal.

Mr Badr praised the lawyers’ struggle for the cause of the independence of judiciary.

He gave out that the PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto had sought a report on the May 12 incident in Karachi and the torching of lawyers’ rally in Sahiwal.

He asked PLF’s Mehr Nazar Farid Fatiana advocate to submit a white paper on police atrocities.

INJURED: Three motorcyclists looted Rs650,000 in cash after injuring seriously the cashier and the driver of a medicine distributing company with gunfire shots here on Monday.

Reports said the cashier and driver Victor were on their way to deposit the cash with a bank branch on Jinnah Street when masked bandits started chasing them from their office on Tariq bin Ziad Colony. On reaching close to the van, motorcyclists opened fire on the cashier and the driver, snatched a bag containing the cash and escaped from the scene. The injured were admitted to hospital where their condition was stated to be serious.

Fateh Sher police are looking into the matter.

Meanwhile, five bandits looted the house of a farmer at Chak 82/12-L.

Reports said that bandits entered the house of Naveed Ahmed by scaling its boundary wall, woke up the inmates and held them up at pistol point. Later, the intruders locked the women in a room, collected 61 tolas of gold, Rs134,000 in cash, a rifle and fled while resorting to aerial firing.

Shahkot police have registered a case.