BAHAWALPUR, July 7: Police on Saturday registered a case against a union council nazim along with his brother and 16 accomplices for opening indiscriminate firing and damaging standing crop of his rival.

According to police, complainant Abdul Rehman said that Inayati union council nazim Shahid Amin, his brother Tahir Amin and 16 others, in a bid to seize his 184 acres of land, opened fire and destroyed his standing cotton crop with the help of tractors.

No arrest has yet been reported.

DROWNED: A woman and her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter drowned in river Sutlej near Khairpur Tamewali, about 40 kilometres from here, on Friday.

It is learnt that the wife of Muhammad Haji Panwar, in a bid to cross the river, drowned with her daughter. Their bodies have not yet been recovered.

PRESS CLUB: District nazim Tariq Cheema, at a reception here on Saturday, said the construction of the Bahawalpur Press Club would be started soon.

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