Five human smugglers held

Published March 28, 2007

GUJRANWALA, March 27: The federal investigation agency (FIA) claimed on Tuesday to have arrested five human smugglers.

Reports said on a tip-off Gujranwala FIA passport cell deputy-director Husain Asgher constituted a raiding team, led by inspector Mian Sabir and SI Kauser Husain. The party conducted raids and arrested Abdul Majid, Iftikhar Ahmed, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Riaz and Iqbal Cheema of Sialkot and Muridke from their houses. The accused had received Rs6.5 million from various people for sending them abroad. But neither the accused sent them abroad nor returned their money.

The team recovered several passports and other documents from their possession.

WARRANTS: A local court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Husain Ahmed, MNA Qazi Hamidullah, Hamiduddin Awan, Azher Hassan and MMA district president Bilal Qudrat, besides 10 other activists and directed the police to produce them on next hearing after arresting them.

The court rejected the police’s plea that the accused be declared proclaimed offenders. The court adjourned the case till April 27.

Police had registered a case against them on charges of protesting against the government for enforcement of women protection law.

TAKEN AWAY: Robbers took away three electric transformers from the outhouse of ruling PML leader Chaudhry Hamid Nasir Chattha in Ahmednagar on Tuesday.

Ahmednagar police have registered a case.

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