TOBA TEK SINGH: Three persons of the same family died and two others were injured after they fell on the road in head-on collision with a motorcycle rickshaw and tractor trolley ran them over on the Shorkot Cantonment-Rafiqui Airbase Road on Saturday night.
According to Rescue 1122, after a collision between a bike and a rickshaw near Chak 43GB of Pirmahal tehsil, the family, riding the bike, fell on the road and a tractor trolley ran them over. As a result, Muhammad Yasin (50) of Kamalia, his wife and two children were critically injured. Later, Yasin, his daughter Sahira Fatima (8) and his son Muhammad Saif (7) succumbed to their injuries, while his wife and rickshaw driver were undergoing treatment in the hospital.
Meanwhile, five car riders sustained critical wounds when their speeding vehicle turned over after its tyre burst near Randhaw Chowk on Aminpur-Kamalpur Bypass Roads in Faisalabad. They were shifted to the Allied Hospital and were identified as Tariq Afzal (50), Chanda Shahbaz (10), Azan Shahbaz (12), Ibrahim Rashid (10) and Ali Akbar (28), all belonging to Chak 67 JB Sadhar.
WHEAT CAMPAIGN: A 10-day grow more wheat campaign has been launched in Jhang on Sunday jointly by the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) and the agriculture department to boost wheat production.
The campaign opened with an awareness rally led by Jhang Agriculture Assistant Director Nasir Abbas Sial. Male and female agriculture officers and farmer representatives and Fertiliser Association General Secretary Mehar Muhammad Afzal and agricultural graduate students participated. Pamphlets were also distributed among the citizens.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING: The Faisalabad FIA registered a case against two deported passengers and their four alleged agents involved in illegal immigration.
According to an FIA official, Azhar Hussain and Ghulam Abbas were deported from Libya on Oct 27 and they arrived at the Islamabad International Airport. FIA claimed that during immigration clearance, it was revealed that both passengers were arrested by Libyan authorities while trying to illegally go to Italy, after which they were deported to Pakistan.
FIA said that according to initial investigations, Azhar Hussain allegedly paid Rs3.4 million to agents for illegal migration abroad. He went to Saudi Arabia on a work visa, from where he went to Egypt and later Libya. He was arrested while trying to illegally travel from Libya to Italy.
Similarly, the FIA said that Ghulam Abbas allegedly paid Rs5.1 million to an agent. He left for Azerbaijan via Dubai, but on the instructions of the agent, he went to Egypt and later to Libya, from where he was also arrested while trying to illegally travel to Italy and deported to Pakistan.
The FIA has registered a case against both passengers and their four alleged agents.
Published in Dawn, November 2nd, 2026
