TOBA TEK SINGH: The Jaranwala (Faisalabad district) police on Wednesday registered a case against two policemen who would extort money from people after torturing them at a private torture cell.

According to an FIR registered by the Jaranwala city police against Talha Siddique and Safdar Ali, along with their two accomplices Mansoor and Jagga Gujjar, a resident of Mohallah Bilal Ganj, Aftab Alam, informed police that he and others were standing outside a house and learnt that the four suspects daily bring innocent people and extort money.

The SHO raided the place and found Mutayyab being tortured. He told the SHO that the suspects tortured him to extort Rs20,000 and threatened to wrongly implicate him in a robbery case. He said the suspects fled.

CPO Umar Saeed Malik formed a team to arrest the suspects. The policemen have also been suspended from service.

ENTRANCE TEST: Around 5,000 aspirants seeking admissions to PhD, MPhil and MSc (Hons) appeared in entrance test in two sessions.

The third entrance test for admission to postgraduate degree programmes was conducted on the UAF main campus. After considering the requests of the candidates belonging to the flood-affected areas, the varsity administration decided to provide another opportunity to such candidates who sat the test on Wednesday.

The university is offering admission to 113 postgraduate degree programmes out of which 43 are for PhD and 89 for MPhil, MSc (Hons), MS, and MBA Executive.

Provisional merit lists of 41 undergraduate degree programmes have been displayed on the UAF website. Those who qualify GAT with at least 50 marks for admission to MPhil, MSc (Hons), MS, and MBA Executive, and 70 marks in GRE (subject) for PhD would be eligible for submission of online admission forms.

Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2022