July 21, 2008	Monday	Rajab 17, 1429

SIALKOT, July 20: Spate in Nullah Deg inundated 15 villages of Pasrur tehsil on Sunday, damaging standing crops and forcing locals to shift to safer places.

The flood and rainwater spilled out from the banks of nullah after heavy rains in catchment areas of the stream on Saturday night, inundating Hunjali, Jhaatokey, Mehtabpur, Chahoor Kalan, Nawaadey, Jussiwala and some other villages.

District Coordination Officer (DCO) Captain Atta Muhammad Khan (retired) said the situation was under control and no loss of life or property was reported from the area as yet.

SMUGGLING: A special checking team led by the DCO foiled an attempt to smuggle wheat and seized four trucks near Pasrur on Sunday. The wheat was reportedly meant to be smuggled to Afghanistan.

The team also foiled a flour smuggling attempt and seized as many as 68 bags of flour from a Mardan-bound passenger bus. The police arrested drivers of the vehicles.

SHOT DEAD: Six men allegedly shot dead a mother of two over an enmity with her family in Tarska-Motra village of Daska on Sunday.

Shahid and Ali allegedly stormed into the house of their rival Muhammad Ashraf and opened fire, killing Ashraf’s 28-year-old daughter Humaira at the scene. The accused fled under the cover of aerial firing.

GIRLS RECOVERED: Police have recovered abducted minor girls Anam (12) and Zil-e-Huma (6) from Lahore a week after their abduction from Daska city’s Islamabad locality. Daska Deputy Superintendent of Police Shoaib Zaman told reporters on Sunday that the police had arrested one of the kidnappers.

ABDUCTION CASE: Daska Sadar police have registered an abduction case after five weeks of the abduction of a young girl, but have arrested no accused so far.

According to the FIR, Amjad, Safdar, Arshad and Abida allegedly kidnapped Muhammad Sharif’s daughter Saheela (14) on June 13 when she was going to a shop near her house.

INQUIRY ORDERED: District Coordination Officer Atta Muhammad Khan has ordered a departmental inquiry against the contractors and officials who have been accused of using substandard material in the construction of four roads Malaky Kalan-Bahu Bhatti Road, Kulluwal-Gadaarey Road, Olakh Awanan Road and Wahid Chowk-Malkay Kalan Road. —Correspondent