TAXILA: A court in Attock awarded death sentence to a man for murdering a nine-year-old girl.

Noman Sultan, a resident of Kot Fateh Khan in the limits of Fatehjang police, gunned down the girl in Pagh village over a petty dispute on October 13, 2020.

The police registered a case and later arrested the man besides recovering the weapon used in the murder.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs100,000 on the convict to be paid as compensation to the legal heirs of the deceased. The convict was employed as a domestic worker at the house of the deceased when he killed her.

Smugglers arrested

The National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) on Tuesday thwarted a bid to smuggle arms and ammunition and arrested two suspects near Hassanabdal.

According to the motorway police spokesperson Saqib Waheed, police officials were on a routine patrolling when they spotted a suspicious car parked on the side lane of Islamabad-Peshawar Motorway (M-1) near Burhan Interchange.

When the police reached the spot, they found two persons acting suspiciously in the car. During a search, the police recovered three rifles, 24 magazines and eight pistols along with 4,078 live rounds from the car.

According to an initial investigation, the suspects were members of an inter-provincial gang of arms smugglers and were attempting to smuggle the arms to Rajanpur from Peshawar.

The arrested persons and the weapons were handed over to the Hassanabdal police.

Published in Dawn, June 30th, 2021