September 08, 2007	Saturday	Sha'aban 25, 1428

TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 7. A court bailiff on Friday raided the Rajana police station and freed a PML-N leader, Col Ayub Gadhi (retired), from illegal police custody.

The bailiff later produced Gadhi before the district and sessions judge who ordered his immediate release.

Gadhi, the brother of former MPA Sardar Masood Gadhi, was picked from his residence in Chak 184-GB on Thursday night. The bailiff found that the police records did not show Gadhi had been arrested formally.

Later, while addressing a press conference at District Press Club, Gadhi condemned the arrests of PML-N activists and announced that he and hundreds of other party workers would go to receive Mian Nawaz Sharif on September 10. “Arrests can never restrain PML workers and the people of Pakistan from going to Lahore and Islamabad on that day,” he added.

ELECTED: Chaudhry Akhtar Ali Dhilloon, a candidate of District Nazim Chaudhry Abdul Sattar’s group, was elected unopposed as District Public Safety Commission chairman, here on Friday.

Two other candidates, Chaudhry Shabbir Ahmad and Nasir Mahmood Saleemi, had also filed their nomination papers but they did not turn up before the returning officer/district and sessions judge for scrutiny, on which their nomination papers were rejected and Dhilloon was declared elected unopposed.

PML MNA Riaz Fatyana and his wife Ashifa Riaz, also a provincial minister, had seconded Dhilloon’s nomination paper before the returning officer. He is younger brother of Lt Gen Muhammad Javed Chaudhry.