SAHIWAL: Kalyana police registered a case against PML-N MPA from Bahawalnagar, Ihsanul Haq, and three unidentified persons in a hit-and-run in which a woman died on Friday.

The accident occurred at Mete Bus Stop, Hota Road, tehsil Pakpattan, early in the morning when the speeding sport utility vehicle (SUV) with the registration number AGX 169 of the MPA hit a motorcycle-rickshaw.

Imam Sayn, her husband, Muhammad Ramzan, residents of Chak 93/D, Noorpur, and two other passengers were going to Pakpattan while the MPA was on his way to Chishtian when the accident happened.

The SUV hit the rickshaw from the front and its four passengers, including Imam Sayn and Ramazan, got critically injured.

Eyewitness told the police the accident happened due to speeding vehicle of the MPA Ihsan who, instead of stopping and helping the injured, escaped along with his driver and two unidentified persons. They left the vehicle behind.

All the injured were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital Pakpattan where Sayn succumbed to her injuries. There are reports that the deceased and her husband had to travel to Lahore from Pakpattan to take their flight to Jeddah for Umra.

On the complaint of Sayn’s brother, Zakir Hussain, Kalyana police booked the MPA Ihsanul Haq and three unidentified persons under PPC 337G, 320 and 427. The police have impounded the MPA’s SUV.

While talking to Dawn Zakir alleged that Kalyana SHO Arshad Nadeem was pressurising him to reconcile with the MPA. He said the SHO had taken his thumb impression on a blank paper while registering the FIR.

BANNED: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Sahiwal has imposed a ban on two books, History Today (2), by Teresa Crompton and Muslim Model Papers English, Class 9th &10th, by Muhammad Irshad Abbas.

This was informed by BISE secretary Zulficar Ali Saqib while issuing a notification here on Friday.

Talking to Dawn, he said the curriculum wing of the Punjab Textbook Board had imposed the ban on the above books because of some “controversial material” in them.

He said no public or private educational institution was allowed to use these books as teaching reference material.

Published in Dawn, May 19th, 2018