TOBA TEK SINGH: The body of a missing 11-year-old girl has been found hanging from a tree outside Chak 328 GB, Chuttiana, on Saturday.

Deceased Sehr Parveen, the daughter of a farmer Faqir Muhammad Khokhar, went to her school on Thursday but did not return. Police and the villagers searched for her in the school and the fields but failed. A farmer saw her body hanging from a tree with her scarf and informed her parents.

Police shifted the body to the district headquarters (DHQ) hospital for a post-mortem.

It is suspected that the girl might have been kidnapped, raped and strangled by someone on her way back to home from school. Police have arrested some suspects as a part of investigation.

UAF: The board of directors of UAF Endowment Fund Secretariat (EFS) okayed the microfinance project meant for agricultural development with a budget of Rs1.1bn.

The approval was given in a meeting, chaired by UAF VC Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan and attended by Agriculture University of Peshawar VC Prof Dr Jehan Bakht, Chairman Four Brothers Engineer Jawed Salim Qureshi, Pakistan Agriculture Research Council representative Arshad Farooq, UAF Prof Dr Jafar Jaskani, UAF Treasurer Umar Saeed Qadri, UAF Registrar Tariq Mehmud Gill and UAF Deputy Director Amir Saeed.

The meeting also approved the book projects and construction of a scholar block. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Iqrar said the university would take a lead in the green revolution that had become the need of the hour to feed the ever-increasing population of the country.

He said that in the current era, the agriculture sector was confronting different challenges, including low productivity, climate change, floods and lack of value addition and quality.

The VC said the university would provide the quality seed to the farming community with the help of industry. He added that the huge import bill of edible items was a grave concern for the country for which measure would have to be taken to become self-sufficient. Dr Jafar Jaskni also spoke.

TORTURED: Five persons allegedly tortured a private TV channel reporter at Gojra.

Arsalan of Chak 99-JB and his four accomplices attacked Nasir Siddique and severely tortured him. As a result, his leg was fractured.

He was shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Gojra where the doctors referred him to the Allied Hospital Faisalabad.

The reason behind the attack could not be known.

Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2023