Man stabbed to death

GUJAR KHAN, Jan 6: A young man was stabbed to death while three others were injured by their rival group in a brawl over a petty issue on Friday, the police said. According to the sources, Adeel Sajid, a resident of Chial village had a brawl with Hamid Khalid and others some days back.

On Friday, the two groups of the young men again had a fight in which Sher Khan, Hamid Khalid, Faheem Ullah and Qaisar Khan attacked Adeel Sajid, Mudasar Malik, Mohammad Zaheer and Amir Abbas and injured them with knives.

The injured were shifted to THQ hospital from where Adeel Sajid was referred to a Rawalpindi hospital but he breathed his last on the way. The police registered the case against the accused and started investigations. —  Correspondent

Boy goes missing

RAWALPINDI, Jan 6: Police are searching for an 8th class student who went missing in Defence Housing Authority Phase I on Friday.

Mushtaq Anjum 13, son of an air commodore, left home along with his sister in a school van but did not reach the institution.

After searching the boy, his parents reported the matter to the Morgah police.

Sub-Inspector Altaf Hussain said the boy had been in distress after performing poorly in his exam. He said the boy had gone to his friend’s house and asked him to accompany him but after his refusal he left the house and disappeared.

The investigating officer said the missing boy was sending SMS to his parents saying he would be back after some time and they should not be worried about him.

The police said according to preliminary investigation the boy was somewhere in the city.— Staff Reporter

Bank, travel agency looted

ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: A bank branch and a travel agency office were looted in separate incidents on Friday, the police said. In the first incident, a robber armed with weapon looted Rs800,000 from Habib Bank branch, Bhara Kahu when the branch was being closed down at about 5:50pm.

In the other incident, three robbers entered Al-Noor Travel Agency, located in Blue Area and held the staff at gunpoint and made off with Rs300,000. — Staff Reporter

Students’ protest continues

CHAKWAL, Jan 6: Students of Intermediate Part-II vowed to continue their protest as their talks with the controller of examination failed here on Friday.

Representatives of students from Govt Post Graduate College, Govt College for Women and District Public School had a meeting with Humayun Iqbal, Controller Examination, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Rawalpindi on Friday morning at the house of PML-N MPA Iffat Liaquat Ali.

The controller admitted that students had to suffer due to faulty results but he rejected their demand of awarding them marks of objective parts in Intermediate Part-I exam saying that it was beyond his powers. At this the angry students blocked the Bhoun Chowk and started chanting slogans against Punjab Government and the board. After hectic efforts MPA Iffat Liaquat convinced students and a committee of four students was formed to meet Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on January 9. The law maker will also accompany students in their meeting with the chief minister. It was decided that in case he was not available, the committee would meet the education secretary.

The students wanted marks of objective papers which were not given to them by the board saying that the marks of Part-II objective papers would be added as marks of part-I as well. — Correspondent

JI stages demo

TAXILA, Jan 6: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Friday staged a protest demonstration against energy crisis, stoppage of gas supply to the industries and unjustified raise in the utility bills.Carrying placards and banners inscribed with different slogans against inflation and electricity and gas outages, the rally was taken out from community centre.

After marching through main roads, it concluded at Taxila main chowk. Despite chilly weather and rain, a large number of JI and Shabab-i-Milli activists participated in the rally.

JI President Taxila chapter Khawaja Mohammad Waqar Advocate and General Secretary Tanzeel Mudassir while addressing the participants said that the ongoing energy crisis exposed incompetence and mismanagement of the government as 14 per cent to 207 per cent increase in gas prices from January 1 was enough to break the back of the already burdened common man.

They said industrial workers, mill owners and the masses at large were already protesting against high prices and load shedding but the rulers had closed their eyes to the people’s problems. They said that in the prevailing situation, the masses should stand up against the corrupt rulers and force them to quit the government. — Correspondent