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GUJRANWALA, Sept 23: Security agencies arrested an alleged terrorist from Haidri Road on Tuesday, it is learnt.
Sources told Dawn that Maulvi Sanaullah was allegedly involved in the Oct 18 attack on the convoy of late Benazir Bhutto in Karachi.
In a related development, a crackdown is expected from Wednesday (today) on 25 men of banned outfits identified by the Interior Ministry across Gujranwala district.
This was the second major arrest from Gujranwala since the Mariott blast. Earlier, Maulvi Ashraf was arrested on Sunday.
COUPLE KILLED: A couple was killed and their two children were injured when the roof of their house collapsed in Jalal Balagan village of Ghakhar Town on Tuesday.
Muhammad Yousaf, 50, and his family members were asleep in their house at night when the roof of their house caved in. The neighbours retrieved them from the debris and took them to the district headquarters hospital in critical condition. Yousaf and his wife Fatima died in the hospital, while the condition of their daughter Zakia and son Usman was said to be critical.
PROTEST: Public transport van owners and drivers threw the traffic out of gear on GT Road in protest against traffic ‘wardens’ excesses’.
They said wardens were slamming Rs1,000 fine on them for minor violations and impounding their vehicles for days. Van owners’ representatives Abdul Hamid and Rana Amjad alleged that traffic police and the Regional Transport Authority staff were teasing van owners to ‘benefit’ a franchised bus service, which was owned by a former transport minister.
They said traffic wardens were misbehaving with drivers, conductors and passengers over minor issues. They said some traffic police inspectors should be transferred from the city to ease the situation for transport owners, their staff and passengers.
DEFAULTERS: The Excise and Taxation Department on Tuesday began an operation against defaulters, arrested about 12 of them and sealed their properties. The department began the operation after its final notice to defaulters did not work.
CHALLENGED: Wahando police registered a case against a man for stealing bricks and engine after six years while the accused challenged the FIR in the sessions court on Tuesday.
Landlord Muhammad Akhtar had submitted an application to police some six years ago against Nisar Ahmad on charges of stealing bricks and a tube well engine. But the police registered the case a few days ago under sections 380 and 452 PPC.
