GUJRANWALA: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said on Thursday that a traveling agency owner, wanted in a Rs110 million fraud case and 218 cases of human smuggling, would be extradited from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan as Interpol had arrested him there.

FIA Deputy Director Malik Sikander said Akram Mughal, owner of Daska-based Nimra Traveling Agency, lured people into exciting Umra and overseas job deals and fled after collecting Rs110 million from them.

The FIA has already arrested six agency employees and Mughal’s wife and seized 45,000 passports besides Rs5 million from her.

Punjab FIA Director Usman Anwar praised the FIA for getting arrested Mughal in Saudi Arabia by Interpol and announced commendation certificates for the team.

EXECUTED: Two death-row prisoners were executed in the central jail on Thursday.

Ijaz Ahmad was hanged for killing Nazir over an enmity in Wazirabad in May 1995, and Abdul Jabbar for shooting Mohsin to death in Baghbanpura a few years ago.

The jail authorities handed over the bodies to the heirs.

Also, jail authorities plan to hang two more condemned prisoners, convicted of rape, on April 22 as Anti-terrorism Court Judge Bushra Zaman issued on Thursday their death warrant.

According to the prosecution, convicts Abid Mansoor and Sanaullah had gang-raped a teenaged girl of Bhekhopura village.

Also, Additional Sessions Court Judge Abu Al-Hasnat handed down death sentence on two counts to Muhammad Asghar in a double murder case.

Asghar had killed his wife and daughter in Sattelite Town last year.

KIILLED: A man allegedly killed his sister for honour while a Christian cleric was found slaughtered on Thursday.

Police said Saqib shot to death his sister suspecting her of having an affair and dumped the body in a canal in Alipur Chattha. Aroop police are conducting raids to arrest Saqib. In Qila Dedar Singh, Mushtaq, alias Ishaq Masih, was found murdered in Qila Dedar Singh. Police shifted the body to the Gujranwala District Headquarters hospital for autopsy.

SCHOOL FEE: People have protested at a 20 per cent increase in tuition fee by some private educational institutions, calling it an extra burden on them.

Protesters said the parents were mostly government servants who were already spending 50 per cent of their income on the schooling of their children.

They demanded that schools withdraw increase in the fee.

Published in Dawn, April 17th, 2015

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