September 05, 2007	Wednesday	Sha'aban 22, 1428

GUJRANWALA, Sept 4: Five people were shot dead apparently over political enmity while another died due to cardiac arrest after a gruesome incident in Lohianawala near Rawalpindi Bypass here on Tuesday.

Muhammad Aslam, alias Bagoo Pehalwan, a former union council nazim, was sitting at his outhouse along with his companions in the evening when unidentified people riding on a motorcar came and shot at them. The culprits later fled after resorting to aerial firing.

Bagoo Pehalwan, his brother Ch Nasrullah and another Muhammad Aslam, alias Achoo, also a former councillor, died on the spot while Ch Nazir Ahmed and Nazar Bhinder succumbed to bullet wounds at DHQ Hospital.

Another Muhammad Aslam, who was relative of Bagoo Pehalwan, fainted when he saw bodies of his kin lying on the scene. He later died because of cardiac arrest.

The Aroop police are investigating. The police said enmity could be apparent motive behind the incident.

However, neither any case had been registered nor any suspect had been arrested till the filing of this report.

Rickshaws: The National Highway and Motorway Police (NH&MP) have evicted motorcycle-rickshaws from a parking stand built at Pirkot Road Morr in Ghakkhar and barred them from plying on GT Road.

On the other hand, rickshaw owners have protested their eviction for the fourth time and threatened to block the road on Sept 10 in case their stand (adda) was not restored.

The rickshaw owners’ meeting chaired by Khalid Jutt on Tuesday pointed out that the NH&MP had allowed them to park their vehicles in front of Main Bazaar wherefrom they were shifted to Barkat Market, then to Rahmat Market and finally to Pirkot Road Morr.

But, now the NH&MP have evicted them from the Pirkot Road Morr stand too and warned that their vehicles would be impounded if they did not stop plying on GT Road, they added.

They said they were earning livelihood by fetching schoolchildren and passengers from nearby villages, but the police were bent upon depriving them of their legitimate business and were putting citizen in trouble.

They threatened that they would block GT Road on

Sept 10 if they were not allowed plying their vehicles on the road.

When contacted, SSP Osama Mumtaz Raja, the incharge of N-5 Kharian-Lahore Sector, said motorcycle-rickshaws could not be allowed plying on GT Road.