TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of powerloom workers staged a demonstration on Wednesday in the industrial area of Khalid Colony at Kamalia, to press the government for acceptance of their demands.
Addressing the workers, Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM) Central Chairman Baba Latif Ansari demanded that social security cards should be issued to all workers before the balloting of applications for Kamalia’s labour colony, and that labourer’s representatives should be included in the plots allotment committee.
Ansari deplored that workers have to travel to Jhang for redressal of their issues by social security officials as the department had no office at Toba.
Other speakers demanded that the issuance of social security cards for powerloom, kiln and sanitary workers of Kamalia be ensured before beginning of the procedure for allotment of plots in the labour colony. They added the card would also enable the workers to get other basic social security facilities, including healthcare.
The LQM leaders announced that if their demands were not accepted, they would move the Lahore High Court on this matter, besides launching a fully-fledged protest movement to get rights of the workers.
GIRL RECOVERED: Nawan Lahore police in Gojra tehsil claimed to have recovered akidnapped minor girl in a raid in Dera Ghazi Khan.
District police spokesperson said on Wednesday that on Sept 17, 2026, the prayer-leader of the mosque situated at Nawan Lahore Adda, Qari Haq Nawaz, had allegedly abducted the daughter of one Iftikhar Ali. He says the girl had been learning the Holy Quran from the prayer-leader.
The police registered a case against the suspect and conducted raids in various districts to arrest him and recover the girl.
The girl was finally recovered from Chotti in Taunsa Sharif tehsil of Dera Ghazi Khan, the spokespersons said, adding that the suspect was also arrested.
DPO Akhlakullah Tarar has announced prizes and certificates for the police team which recovered the girl and arrested the suspect.
MAN DIES: A man died and another was injured when a car and a motorcycle-rickshaw collided head-on near the Punjab Highway Patrol Police check post on Gojra-Painsara road.
As per the police, the collision occurred because of speeding vehicles, resulting in the death of rickshaw driver Sharif (45), a resident of Chak 281-JB.
The injured car driver was identified as Nadeem (35) of Faisalabad. He was shifted to the Gojra THQ Hospital for treatment.
REARRESTED: A suspect, who was arrested on the charge of raping a minor girl, was allegedly injured in the firing by his accomplices, who attempted to free him from police in Faisalabad’s Rodala Road police limits.
According to police sources, the suspect, ‘A’, had allegedly raped a 7-year-old girl, a student of Class II, at Chak 283-GB on Monday night, and fled away.
On the complaint of the girl’s father, the police arrested the suspect.
The suspect was being brought to the police station, when his accomplices attacked the policeand freed him, the sources claim.
They say that on being informed of the situation, a police team led by Rodala Road SHO Mehr Gulzar Sipra, chased and surrounded the suspect and his accomplice near Pathorana Phatak, on Chak 357-GB Jasuana Link Road.
The sources say that during crossfire between the police and the attackers, the rape suspect was injured in his accomplices’ firing and was again arrested. He was shifted to hospital.
Published in Dawn, November 12th, 2026
