NAROWAL: A group of Indian Sikh pilgrims on Tuesday planted olive saplings to mark launch of a tree planting campaign at Kartarpur.

The pilgrims are on a visit to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib. They, along with Kartarpur Management Unit Chief Executive Officer Muhammad Latif, began a campaign by planting saplings on the agricultural land.

Sardar Harmindar Singh and Sardar Sarvinder Singh said they were honoured to have an opportunity to plant trees on Baba Guru Nanak’s agricultural land.

Pareet Korr Haryana and Manjit Singh Haryana said it was a great pleasure to plant saplings which would one day grow into big trees.

The CEO said olive saplings had been planted as part of Billion Tree project of Prime Minister Imran Khan. He said 1,000 olive trees were being planted over 10 acre.

ARREST: The Sialkot police claim to have arrested a man who raped and killed a 12-year-old boy after abducting him.

District police spokesperson Khurram Shehzad said the body of Talha was found in an area falling in the ​Sabz Pir police jurisdiction. Chief Minister Usman Buzdar had taken notice of the incident and demanded a report from the regional police officer, Gujranwala, he said.

He said DPO Hassan Iqbal formed raiding teams and they arrested the suspect within 24 hours.

He said Muhammad Abdullah was a resident of Jamal Jund village and was a friend of Talha whom he raped and killed.

Abdullah confessed to committing the crime, he said.

Published in Dawn, March 2nd, 2022