HYDERABAD: The Summary Military Court Hyderabad today [Feb 5] convicted six students under Martial Law Regulations for damaging the office of the Associated Press of Pakistan, Marjeena Restaurant and Venus Cinema.

Three of them, Ghulam Yaseen, Murad Ali Shah and Allah Obhavo were awarded one year rigorous imprisonment each while remaining three, Salahuddin, Murtaza and Abdul Ghafoor who are minors were given three months’ imprisonment each. They will be detained in the Juvenile Jail .... — Agency

[Meanwhile, as reported by an agency in Rawalpindi,] The Police have arrested 75 persons at Tarbela for “engineering strike and inciting others to do it” the Deputy Commissioner, Hazara, told [agency] on telephone tonight [Feb 5]. He said that the project had been declared by the Government a public utility service and therefore the strike is “illegal”. The strike began yesterday.

The Police also resorted to a “mild lathi-charge” to disperse an “unlawful assembly and procession” of the workers. A Press note by the district authorities said that workers struck work yesterday evening deman­ding the reinstatement of one of their colleagues who had been removed from service after he was found guilty of manhandling and beating a foreign worker.

Published in Dawn, February 6th, 2020