September 05, 2008	Friday	Ramazan 04, 1429

ATTOCK, Sept 4: Two officials of the Pindigheb police have been suspended for torturing and injuring an accused in the police lockup, sources told Dawn on Thursday.

Police sources said that District Police Officer (DPO) Attock Mohammad Wisal Sultan Raja had suspended SHO Pindigheb Police station Inspector Ghulam Shabeer and Muharrar Ghafoor for torturing Ansar Mehmood in the lockup on Wednesday.

However, the police said the accused tried to commit suicide in the lockup by cutting his body parts with sharp blade and was rushed to the tehsil headquarters hospital Pindigheb in critical condition. The police have also registered a suicide case against the accused, sources added.

The DPO ordered a departmental inquiry and directed the SDPO Jand DSP Mirza Jameel Baig to probe the incident in detail and submit his report to him within two days.

SI DISMISSED: DPO also dismissed incharge Jarikus Police Post Sub Inspector (SI) Mohammad Riaz after he was found guilty of being involved in wheat/atta smuggling, sources said.

Earlier, the SI was suspended by the DPO some days back on his alleged involvement and SP Investigation Attock had been asked to initiate departmental inquiry, which found him guilty, sources added.

ATTACK CONDEMNED: Local political figures including Central PPP leader Malik Hakmeen Khan, MPA Malik Shahan Khan, PML-N Leaders Malik Suhail Khan and Sardar Mumtaz Khan condemned the attack on the motorcade of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Islamabad Highway on Wednesday.

In their separate statements, they said that it was an attempt to derail the democratic process. However such anti-democratic forces will not succeed in their nefarious designs, they said.

PPP leaders said that history of the PPP was full of sacrifice as ZA Bhutto and then his daughter Ms Benazir Bhutto sacrificed their lives for supremacy of democracy.