TOBA TEK SINGH, May 1: The Pirmahal police on Tuesday registered a case against a bank manager who has allegedly disappeared with Rs72 million.

The police, which registered a case on the complaint of Alfalah Bank’s Pirmahal Branch acting manager Muhammad Asim, said manager Syed Yaqub Shah Gilani along with a bank officer and cashier went to the National Bank of Pakistan’s local branch on April 27 to deposit Rs80 million. He deposited only Rs8 million and on return to his branch, pasted NBP receipt showing a deposit of Rs80 million by tampering with it, and disappeared, they said.

A Pirmahal police official said the police registered a case under sections 409 and 477 of PPC and referred the case to the Federal Investigation Agency.

A source said the police had taken into custody Syed Afzal Gilani, a brother of the suspect, who also serves the same bank.

PTI COMMITTEES: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf Vice-Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has formed steering committees for seven districts to supervise the enrolment campaign.The districts are Toba Tek Singh, Faisalabad, Jhang, Chiniot, Okara, Pakpattan and Sahiwal.

A notification issued by Mr Qureshi said the district organisations of the seven districts had been dissolved and the function of district organisers would be performed by the steering committees, says a press release.

The outgoing district organisers will not become convener of steering committees.

Prominent members include ex-federal minister Khalid Kharal, ex-PPP CEC member Ghiasuddin Janbaz, ex-district nazim Chaudhry M. Ashfaq and Tanweer Akhtar (Toba Tek Singh), ex-senator Tariq Chaudhry and MPA Dr Asad Muazzam (Faisalabad), Pir Fakhar Shah and Rana Attaullah (Jhang), ex-MNA Qaiser Sheik (Chiniot), ex-federal minister Chaudhry Naurez Shakoor, ex-MNA Rai Azizullah and ex-district nazim Rai Hasan Nawaz (Sahiwal), Ghulam Mustafa (Okara) and ex-bureaucrat Mian Fareeduddin Riaz (Pakpattan).

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