MUZAFFARGARH, March 3: The kidnapping of a two-year-old child from Langar Sirai, 15 kilometres from Muzaffargarh, has panicked the locality and residents have stopped their children from going out of houses.

Two days ago, two-year-old Raza Hussain went missing from a street outside his house. According to his father, Ghulam Hussnain Rana, his child was playing in front of his house when some unidentified people kidnapped him. So far, he received no call for ransom from the kidnappers.

He said his wife was in shock over the missing of their child. He said that he had no enmity with anyone. Police registered a case and started investigation.

MISSING FACILITIES: The chief minister’s inspection team has found 1,000 teachers’ posts vacant and many necessary facilities missing in district schools.

District Monitoring Officer Syed Aleem Shah has presented a report to District Coordination Officer Dr Tariq Najeeb Najmi that in 2,200 schools in the district, 1,000 posts were vacant. The monitoring team also mentioned lack of necessary facilities like rooms, drinking water, toilets and boundary walls in most of the schools. Najmi, who is chairman of the District Development Committee, also visited many schools in the city and found that in one school, 750 schoolchildren were studying in a building that could collapse any time. He ordered releasing funds for the school.

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