DERA GHAZI KHAN: The police registered a case against 53 activists, including a former PTI provincial minister, with the Rajanpur city police for blocking the Indus Highway and chanting slogans against the government.
The police registered a case under sections 341, 506, 148, and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code, as well as the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Act of 1960–16, against former provincial minister Hasnain Bahadar Darishak and 52 other PTI Rajapur chapter activists on charges of blocking the inter-provincial Indus highway and chanting anti-government slogans.
Led by Mr Darishak, the activists held a protest demonstration against the government and blocked the Indus highway at Allahabad Chowk. They delivered speeches against the government and chanted anti-government slogans.
COLLISION: A head-on collision between a bus and a truck near Ghazi Ghat took the lives of the drivers of both vehicles and left 12 passengers injured. Rescuers 1122 transported the dead and injured victims to Dera Ghazi Khan’s Ghazi Medical College teaching hospital.
The commissioner directed the medical superintendent to provide free treatment to the injured and sought a report from the traffic police about the accident.
Published in Dawn, March 23rd, 2023
