TOBA TEK SINGH: Two persons were allegedly murdered near the Roshanwala Bypass Road in Faisalabad on Wednesday.
According to the Roshanwala police, cousins Absar Afzal (48) and Ihsanullah (39) were returning to their home in Chak 244 RB from Faisalabad on a motorcycle when their opponents, Ghulam Mustafa and his accomplices, opened indiscriminate fire and killed them near Chak 236 RB Kajlay.
Police claimed both groups had an old property dispute and an individual belonging to the suspect’s group was killed in 2025 .
The CPO has formed a police team headed by Iqbal Town SP Saeed Ahmad for the arrest of the suspects, who had fled after the attack.
MURDER SOLVED: The Faisalabad Balochni police have claimed that a missing young factory worker has been killed and arrested his fellow worker for the murder.
A police spokesperson said that Kashif Nawaz Marwat of Dera Ismail Khan was working at a factory near Adda Chohal on Sheikhupura Road.
He claimed that Kashif went missing on Oct 6 and his brother approached the police.
The spokesperson claimed that investigations from other workers revealed that a few days ago another worker Ammar had allegedly stolen the victim’s ATM card and transferred Rs130,000 into his own account.
He claimed that over this, both workers had a quarrel. They told the police that since then both had disappeared from the mill.
The spokesperson added that when the police detained Ammar, he confessed that he had killed Kashif with a knife and buried his body in a sugarcane field.
He claimed the police were able to recover his remains on the indication of the suspect.
ANTI-ENCROACHMENT DRIVE: The Faisalabad Railways Police, in coordination with the inspector of works (IOW), on Wednesday carried out an anti-encroachment operation on railways land near the guard running room in Pathan Colony of Faisalabad and demolished illegal structures.
Railways Police SHO Rao Umair said that encroachers did not put up any resistance and the land was retrieved by the railways team easily.
Published in Dawn, October 22nd, 2026
