GUJRAT: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) claimed to have arrested five government officials, including a Grade-17 officer, during a crackdown on bribery across the Gujranwala region.
The arrested officials include Assistant Secretary General of the Press Board Office, Gujranwala, Muhammad Masood Ali, a Grade-17 officer.
A spokesman for the Gujranwala ACE headquarters said a team raided the Press Board Office and caught the officer red-handed while allegedly receiving a bribe.
The raiding team recovered Rs30,000 from the official, who had allegedly received the amount from a complainant.
The ACE Gujranwala circle registered a case against the suspect and launched an investigation.
In separate raids in Gujrat and Gujranwala, ACE teams also arrested UC-59 secretary Tariq Mehmood and three clerks of the transport and land revenue departments for allegedly receiving bribes from citizens.
TWO KILLED: Two youths were killed and another was critically injured in a collision between two motorbikes near Mungowal Sharqi village of Gujrat on Saturday night.
Rescue officials said that the motorcyclists collided head-on and Shahbaz (35) of Bhagowal and Ahmed (17) of Lakhanwal were killed on the spot due to fatal head injury.
A 14-year-old boy identified as Abdullah was critically injured in the accident.
The injured boy, they said, was unconscious due to a head injury.
The dead and the injured had been shifted to the Jalalpur Jattan Civil Hospital, where the condition of the injured was said to be critical.
Published in Dawn, November 15th, 2026
