GUJRAT: The police claimed on Thursday to have smashed a two-member gang involved in issuing fake national identity cards to the Afghan nationals in Gujrat and surrounding districts.

District Police Officer Rai Ijaz Ahmad said the Gujrat city police had traced the gang and arrested Laiq Khan and Sanaullah Khan, both Afghan nationals, residing in the Noorpur area. The police also recovered some fake identity cards, a computer and a scanner from them.

He said a case had been registered against them under sections 420, 468 and 471 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The district police have arrested more than 100 Afghan nationals in a search operation during the last one month.

RAID: The district government and the police in a joint raid on Thursday unearthed a factory of fake medicine for the poultry and livestock at Shadiwal Town and arrested its owner.

A joint team of the local administration and the Elite Force raided a place in Shadiwal Town and arrested Ali Ibrahim, who ran a factory of fake medicine.

The team sealed the factory and confiscated medicine stock worth Rs1 million.

The Kunjah police have started investigation.

The team has been tasked by the district government to conduct raids on the stores of agriculture and poultry medicines in and around the city to check the fake medicine that had been supplied by the factory.

ROBBERY: Five robbers looted cash and gold ornaments worth Rs500,000 from a house at Kassoki village in the Saddar Jalalpur Jattan police precinct.

Robbers barged in the house of Akbar’s sister, held up the family and took away cash, gold ornaments and other valuables.

The police registered a case.

Published in Dawn, January 30th, 2015

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