November 12, 2007	Monday	Ziqa’ad 01, 1428

SAHIWAL, Nov 11: Around 47 lawyers of Lahore were released from the central jail here late on Saturday night after an anti-terrorism court of Lahore accepted their bails.

Cases had been registered against them on charges of rioting and violation of Section 144 following the imposition of emergency in the country. At least 50 lawyers of Lahore had been shifted to the Sahiwal central jail on Nov 7. The remaining three lawyers are still in detention.

Those released included, Mazhar Farooq, Arif Siddique, Safdar Ali, Abdul Razzaq, Muhammad Hanif, Muhammad Saeed, Imran Zubair, Usman Khalid, Abu Abdullah, Ehsan Aziz, Muhammad Yaqoob, Rizwan, Ali Nawaz, Zahid Munir, Mudassar Imran, Zafar Iqbal, Ehsan Qadir, Qaisar Mahmood, Shahid Iqbal, Kabirul Hassan, Muhammad Amjad, Muhammad Tariq, Muhammad Arshad, Shahzad Muzaffar, Ghulam Mustafa, Sarfraz Ahmed, Muhammad Raza, Muhammad Afzal, Abid, Muhammad Afzaal, Muhammad Atif, Muhammad Afzal Khan, Mahboobul Hassan, Khurram Ahmad, Arshad Haroon, Zulfiqar, Zeshan, Muhammad Sajid, Muhammad Saeed and Abid Nazeer. In all, 78 detainees, including Justice Tariq Mahmood (retired), are still behind bars.

KILLED: Three family members were killed and as many sustained injuries when the car they were traveling in rammed into a roadside tree on Sahiwal-Faisalabad Road on Sunday.

Reports said that trader Sultanullah of Fort Abbas along with his family was going to Faisalabad to attend a marriage ceremony by his car (BNA-9414). In an attempt to save a bicyclist, their speeding car smashed into the roadside tree.

Consequently, Sultanullah, his mother-in-law Jannat Iqbal and sister-in-law Firdaus Iqbal died instantly while his wife Sultana and children Ismat and Saadat suffered injuries. They were rushed to a local hospital.