FIA blast compensation

Published April 20, 2008

LAHORE, April 19: Prime Minister’s Adviser Rehman Malik has announced Rs100,000 compensation and a five-marla plot for heirs of an FIA employee who lost his life in the March 11 blasts at the Temple Road office.

The adviser made the announcement during a visit to the site of the tragedy on Saturday along with senior FIA officers.

Mr Rehman later visited the house of the late FIA driver Shabbir Ahmad and promised with his widow that he would personally bear all the expenses on marriages of her daughters.

He also gave a Rs100,000 cheque to the widow from his own pocket.

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