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DADU, March 5: Town police on Monday arrested an alleged provincial leader of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba and generally secretary of Jamaat Ahl-i-Sunnat on charges of setting fire to an Imambargah.
Gharib-ul-Imam Bargah President Mehboob Ali Joyo charged in an FIR lodged late on Sunday night that Najamuddin Mujahid sprinkled kerosene oil and set ablaze the Imambargah. The fire also burned two copies of the holy book besides other things kept in the Imambargah, he alleged.
KIDNAP: Five armed men kidnapped a woman and her four children in Channo Shahabad Mohalla on Monday.
Gulsher Chandio told police that the armed men identified as Ghulam Ali Khoso, Abdul Jabbar Memon, Abdullah Memon, Sawan Khoso and Wazir Memon barged into his house and kidnapped his wife Farzana and four children Saddam, Koonj, Babaran, and Seema.
Mr Gulsher said that all the accused were living in the same locality near his house and they had kidnapped his family for ransom. Police had made no arrest till the filing of this report.
