Father, daughter recovered

ATTOCK, May 20: A person and his daughter, who had been abducted from Peshawar, were recovered and two alleged kidnappers were arrested by the Hazro police after a brief encounter on Friday.

A policeman Omar Owais sustained bullet injuries in the encounter with the culprits. Police sources said that Nasreen Bibi reported to Hazro police station that her husband Islam Gull and daughter Robina Akhtar had been abducted by Nazam Deen and Gul Rehman from Peshawar and shifted them to Hazro. Acting on the complaint, a police team raided the area near THQ hospital and recovered father and his daughter from the kidnappers after brief encounter.

The police arrested Nazam Deen and Rehman Gull however their third accomplice Sameen Gull managed to escape from the scene. Hazro police station registered a case against the kidnappers and started investigation.— Correspondent

World Cultural Diversity day

ISLAMABAD, May 20: ‘World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development’ is being observed today (Saturday) to highlight the importance of peace, solidarity, cultural diversity and to learn to ‘live together’.

The day is significant as the principal of cultural diversity at the heart of development policy constitutes an essential investment in the world's future and a pre-condition to successful globalization.

The day is meant as a signal to those who sow divisions among human beings that such attempts will always be resisted by those who believe in the far greater forces of tolerance and mutual understanding.

The UN says that a world of peace and solidarity can only be achieved by acknowledging and celebrating the cultural diversity. — Our Reporter

4 beggars taken into custody

RAWALPINDI, May 20: Four child beggars were taken into custody by a rescue team of Child Protection Bureau, Rawalpindi (CPBR) which, along with the police, conducted raids at different localities of the city.

CPBR Operational Team would find out the parents of these children so that these child beggars might be handed them over, said CPBR District Officer Ifran Naveed while talking to media men here on Friday.

He said that following the orders of the Child Protection Court, Rawalpindi, these children would remain in the CPBR custody and would be provided clothes, accommodation, food, education and health facilities.

The rescue teams of CPBR had so far got released more than 15,00 children from the baggers’ gangs and reunited them with their parents, Ifran Naveed said.

He said that presently, eight children were in the CPBR custody and the search for their parents was underway. “The purpose of the CPBR is to save the poor and helpless children from begging,” he said.— A Reporter