TOBA TEK SINGH: Six persons were killed and seven others injured critically on Monday in a head-on collision between a van and a coaster on Jhang-Lyyahh road.

Rescue 1122 official say all the deceased and injured persons, including women and children, were residents of Pir Juggi Sharif locality of Layyah and belonged to the same family.

They were on their way to Faisalabad to attend funeral of a relative, when the van they were travelling by collided head-on with a coaster coming from opposite direction near Adda Maharaja Kapoori in Jhang district on Layyah-Jhang road.

As a result, five of the 13 persons, including women and a child, died instantly, while another succumbed to his injuries on way to hospital.

The deceased were identified as Ahmad Ali (64), his wife Irshad Mai (62), Yousaf (52), Qasim (78), Khurshid Mai (45) and a seven-year-old child Bashir.

The remaining van passengers, including Bashiran Mai (40), Sheeman Mai (28), Nasir Mai (45), Saadia Bibi (6), Arsalan (4) and his brother Nasir Abbas (3), were seriously wounded and were shifted to Garh Maharaja Rural Health Centre for treatment.

BLIND MURDER: Faisalabad’s Ghulam Muhammad Abad police claimed to have traced killers of a factory worker who was murdered some six months ago.

Addressing a press conference, Lyallpur division Superintendent of Police (SP) Danial Ahmad said a case was registered by police on November 16, 2021 about a factory worker Abdul Qadeer gone missing on the complaint of his son.

During investigation, the police found that the Qadeer was lastly seen with his co-worker Shahzad of Muzaffargarh.

When the police interrogated Shahzad, he confessed that he had murdered Qadeer after a dispute over Rs2,200. The suspect told police that he spiked Qadeer’s soft drink with sedatives, leaving him unconscious and threw him into Rakh Branch Canal near Jhang Bazaar. As a result, Qadeer drowned.

The police said Qadeer’s body was later recovered from the canal, and kept in the dead house of the Allied Hospital, Faisalabad as an unclaimed body. After the suspect’s confession the police got custody of the body and also recovered mobile phone of the deceased from the accused.

The SP said that the accused also confessed to have killed another man following a dispute over just a few hundred rupees.

FCCI: Pakistan must carve out a new strategy to minimise imports through the development of the import substitution industry on a fast-track basis to overcome the ill impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on Pakistan economy.

This was stated by FCCI Standing Committee on Research and Development Chairman Engineer Ahmad Hassan while addressing a joint meeting of the two standing committees on Monday.

Published in Dawn, April 26th, 2022