SIALKOT, Jan 30: The wife and son of Arif Masih, who along with his daughter and nephew was killed in LPG cylinder explosion at his residence in Jaamkey Cheema locality in Daska tehsil on Tuesday morning, are still missing.

The Motra police and relatives of the grieved family on Wednesday remained busy in searching for the missing woman, who was also mentally-retarded, and her four-year-old son. They both went missing after the cylinder-stove blast in which roof of their house also caved in, and they were neither found in the dead nor in the injured.

Arif, his three-year-old daughter Muskan and 16-year-old nephew Pomi were laid to rest in their native graveyard.

The local administration has not yet taken any action in this connection.

Bushra Aitzaz: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Aitzaz Ahsan’s spouse Bushra Aitzaz will address members of the District Bar Association (DBA) here on Thursday (today).

DBA President Arshad Mahmood Baggu said this while talking to reporters here on Wednesday. He said the wife of the detained SCBA president would be accorded warm welcome upon her arrival.

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