Deportees in FIA custody

Published August 8, 2006

GUJRANWALA, Aug 7: All 135 people, who were deported by Greece for entering into the country without legal documents, were arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday. All the deportees were the residents of Gujrat, Kharian and Mandi Bahauddin districts. An FIA team arrested them from Quetta when they returned and took them back by a train.

They told the FIA officials that they paid hundreds of thousands of rupees for going to Greece to some agents. They handed them over to their sub-agents after crossing Iran and Turkey and arrested by the Greek border police.

The arrested men have been sent to jail.

SIX INJURED: Half a dozen people, including a woman, were shot at and injured in a clash between two groups over agricultural land dispute in Wahando on Monday.

Raja Jamil and Riaz Thekedar had a dispute over a piece of land. They exchanged fire as a result of which Jamil, Nisar Ahmad, Wasi, Basir, Fiaz, Riaz and Fatima Bibi suffered injuries. They were admitted to the DHQ hospital in critical condition.

Police have registered a case.

HOUSE ROBBED: Robbers pillaged the house of an expatriate in Talwandi Khajoorwali village (Cantonment) and decamped with cash and gold jewellery worth Rs1.5 million on Monday.

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