Sialkot PML-N leaders held

Published January 11, 2007

SIALKOT, Jan 10: Sialkot police have arrested local PML-N leaders to bar them from holding an anti-government rally in the city. Official sources said on Wednesday that the police had detained PML-N Sialkot district coordinator Manshaullah Butt, PML-N Sialkot district president Idrees Ahmad Bajwa, senior vice-president Sheikh Asif Mehmood Soni, and UC Nazim Daska Yahiya Gul Nawaz.

The PML-N had announced an anti-government rally for Thursday in the Sialkot city to protest against lawlessness and sky rocketing prices in the country.

PML-N central leader and MNA Khwaja Asif and MPA Imran Ashraf have condemned the arrests and termed them against the norms of democracy.

BAIL REJECTED: Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Ilyas has rejected pre-arrest bail plea of five people who had allegedly chopped off the nose of the wife of local farmer Remat Khan.

After the rejection of this bail plea, Head Marala police have arrested all the five accused and sent them behind bars.

The accused Bilal Husain, Ikram, Fayyaz Ahmad, Ghulam Ghazi and Mohsin had chopped off the nose of Aziz Bibi a one month ago after kidnapping her over her refusal to get divorce from her husband Rehmat Khan after he married another woman Yasmeen Bibi.

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