LAHORE: Lahore was rather calm today [Dec 14] except for some minor clashes between the students and the police. The students brickbatted police at the Dayal Singh College and the area lying between Islamic College Civil Lines and the old University campus. There were more outsiders than students themselves. The police had to fire some tear gas shells to disperse the students who wanted to form a procession in violation of Sec. 144.

About 100 girl students took out a procession to protest against the treatment meted out to students and the attack on the lawyers’ procession on Wednesday [Dec 13]. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by our Staff Reporter from Karachi,] search for more bodies of the victims of the PIA Fokker crash near Jalkot … has been given up. Only seven bodies have been recovered out of the total of 33 aboard… . The plane had crashed on Dec. 8 on a flight from Gilgit to Rawalpindi. The rest of the bodies and major part of the wreckage has been completely burnt. According to PIA, only four of the seven bodies found were identified. … The Airline said … that interim compensation to the legal heirs of the victims … is being considered on priority basis.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2022