NAROWAL: Eleven people were injured in the firing of their opponents over enmity in the Sialkot district on Monday.

In the first information report (FIR), Waqas Arshad, a resident of Chak Ishaq, tehsil Pasrur, told the police that his tractor-trolley drivers were loading earth to transport it to village Dhariwal when his rivals Zeeshan, Gulfam, Ali Ahmed, Umar and Gulzar Ali along with their accomplices stopped the drivers.

A quarrel started between both the groups and Arshad’s opponents opened fire.

Arshad alleged that 11 people, including Hasan, Rizwan, Faiz, Nasir Mehmood, Muhammad Amir and Shoaib Ali, were injured in the firing.

The suspects fled from the spot and the injured were shifted to the Civil Hospital where the doctors referred two of them to Lahore due to critical condition.

On the complaint of Arshad, Saddar Police Station of Pasrur registered a case against 20 people.

Sialkot District Police Officer Hasan Iqbal said there was a long-standing enmity between the two groups and the police had arrested nine suspects nominated in the FIR.

Published in Dawn, April 16th, 2024