QUETTA, May 4: Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, on a suo motu notice, fixed Monday for hearing an application of a woman, Mah Bibi, who has alleged that her daughter was poisoned to death by her husband.

The applicant has prayed that the SHO police station Dhadar be directed to arrange post-mortem of her daughter, Sakina, and register a case against her son-in-law, Bakhsh Khan.

She complained that the local administration was reluctant to provide her justice.

In another case, anti-terrorism court judge Shaukat Rakshani ordered that an advertisement be placed in newspapers, asking ex-minister Mir Mohbat Khan Marri and five others to appear before the court.

The court had earlier issued arrest warrants of the ex-minister and others nominated in the Chamalang case concerning a landmine explosion in which several coalmine workers were killed.

ARRESTED: The Anti-Narcotics Force has arrested three Afghans and another person from a poppy field in Mastung area.

Sources said on Saturday that the ANF staff conducted a raid in Dasht Baba area and arrested Fazal Din and three Afghans, Inyatullah, Abdul Ghani and Fateh Khan Ishaqzai, who were supervising a poppy field of 1.5 acres.

The provincial home secretary had recently claimed that the target for the destruction of poppy has been achieved during a 15-day operation.

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