GUJRANWALA: A minor boy, Haider, 12, son of Atta Muhammad, missing from house for days was found murdered in village Jhamwala, Wazirabad, on Monday.

Police sent the body to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital for autopsy and registered a case against unidentified people.

ROBBERY: Five gunmen in police uniform looted cash and valuables from the house of trader Mehr Sanaullah in Wazirabad on Monday.

Sana said the gunmen knocked at the door and entered the house on the pretext of checking the licence of arms. They locked the family in a room and fled with Rs500,000, seven-tola gold, a shotgun and other valuables.

Police were looking into matter.

SUICIDE: A man committed suicide in Wazirabad on Monday.

Police said Tahirul Hasan exchanged words with his mother over some domestic issues. He ended his life with a shotgun fire.

Police handed over the body to heirs after legal procedures.

RELIEF: The army dispatched on Monday a second consignment of commodities to North Waziristan displaced people.

Brig Nadim Raza, who is supervising the arrangements, said the help for the people of Waziristan would continue. He prayed for the success of the operation Zarb-i-Azb.

SMS: The Excise and Taxation Department launched on Monday an SMS alert service (9989) for vehicle owners to provide them information about the registration and number plates or vehicle transfer issues.

Talking to Dawn, Excise Director Ahmad Saeed said SIMs had been provided to excise and taxation officers (ETOs) throughout Punjab who would receive SMS from vehicle owners seeking the information of registration and number plates of their vehicle or transfer process.

He said the facility offered vehicle owners to collect crucial information without visiting the office. He said vehicle owners could lodge their complaint to ETOs or director excise in case of any fault of same service.

SCHOOL: Waste management committee managing director Dr Ataul Haq visited Gurjakh Chowk and directed sanitary workers to remove waste from the public land and install two dumpers there.

Dawn learnt the land would be used to build a welfare school and a recreation park there.

Published in Dawn, July 22nd , 2014

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