Woman shot dead

CHAKWAL, Nov 5: A young woman was gunned down while her husband was injured over marriage dispute, police said on Saturday.

Jahangir Hussain a resident of Khokar Bala village in tehsil Kallar Kahar told police that he was present at his house along with his wife Fariha Nasir when two persons Sakhawat and Musaddiq stormed his house and opened fire at them with pistols.

Resultantly, his wife died at the spot while he received serious bullet injuries.

"The alleged killers are the cousins of Fariha”, Investigation Officer (IO) Malik Kazim told Dawn. He further said that Fariha was first married with another person who divorced her. After divorce, father of Sakhawat wanted to get her to marry his son but she refused and married Jahangir.

“At this Sakhawat and his brother Musaddiq killed her”, the IO maintained. He said that a case had been registered. “The killers have disappeared from the scene but we would arrest them soon”, he vowed. — Correspondent

Man found murdered

MURREE, Nov 5: A man was found murdered in Sandyan village, police sources said on Saturday.

It was suspected that his wife was involved in the killing of her husband. Muhammad Munir Kiyani told police that his cousin, Mohanmmad Hammid found dead in his room with wounds of a sharp weapon.

The police recovered the body and after postmortem handed it over to the heirs. Ch Afzaal, the investigation officer said that the wife of the victim was suspected to be involved in the murder as it was revealed that she had quarreled with her husband in the evening and in the morning he was found murdered. — Correspondent

Call to withdraw Form-D

RAWALPINDI, Nov 5: Threatening to go for protests and shutter-down strike, the traders on Saturday demanded of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to withdraw Form-D from income tax returns.

They said that section 9 of Form-D of income tax return included details of children, spouse, education, local and foreign tours and personal cars therefore it was unacceptable for the traders’ community.

President Central Traders Union Rawalpindi Cantonment Zahid Bakhtawri in a meeting with the union office-bearers on Saturday said that the traders had a unanimous demand from FBR to withdraw Form-D from income tax returns otherwise they would launch a countrywide protest.

He said that keeping in view the worsening economic situation in the country, the government would not allow the traders to observe shutter down strike to get their demand fulfilled by the FBR.

The traders asked the federal government to withdraw the conditions besides extending the date for filing income tax returns.

They said that they would not file the returns until the Form-D was withdrawn.

“There are other options for widening tax net in the country and we extend support to the FBR to generate more revenue through the taxes. But we would not accept any move which is targeted only at the traders’ community,” Mr Bakhtwari said. — Our Reporter

Police officials suspended

TAXILA, Nov 5: Taking serious notice of the police failure to nab the criminals involved in the Rs15million robbery in Lala Rukh Jewellery market, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday suspended all the staff of police station Wah Cantt and Rescue 15.

Ch Nisar, who was elected from the constituency, ordered the suspension of the police officials after a meeting with the affected traders. He also expressed concern over the incident occurred on October 5 in which a gang of ten outlaws in police uniforms deprived eight jewelers of gold worth Rs15 million. The police failed to nab the dacoits and recover the looted gold despite the lapse of one month. Mr Khan also took serious notice of the inefficiency of the Rescue 15 staff as despite being located a few yards away from the crime scene, they did not turn up on time. — Correspondent

Media city project

ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Hundreds of registered members of All Pakistan Newspaper Confederation (APNEC) and Media Workers Organization (MWO) have submitted down payments for plots in media city project near Chak Shahzad.

In this connection, a function was organised in the office of MWO in which bank drafts and pay orders of Rs10 million, submitted by members were handed over to the contractor Haji Amanat Khan, Chief Executive Amanat and Sons Enterprises (Pvt).

It is first project for the media workers, especially for the non-journalistic staff of the newspapers and news agencies, which is being completed in collaboration with private sector. Meanwhile, the management of the project has extended the last date for application of the plot till November 14.—Online