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TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 26: A notorious proclaimed offender on Monday kidnapped a cattle trader along with his animals and a pick-up and vanished into a dense forest near Kamalia.
Peer Bakhsh was carrying sacrificial animals to sell them in a cattle market in Faisalabad by his pick up. Some one kilometre away from his Chak 715-GB, PO Syed Ali Raza and his accomplices stopped him at gunpoint and took him away along with his pick up and a few animals. They reportedly entered the forest and disappeared. Till the filing of this report, the police could not trace out outlaws and the trader.
PO Ali Raza and his accomplices had murdered a few months ago Nasir Abbas Gadi, the son of ex-PPP MPA from Pirmahal Sardar Ghulam Abbas Gadhi, and took refuge in the same forest.
The PO was wanted by police in dozens of cases of murder-cum-dacoity and kidnap for ransom. Recently, the police and Elite Force had launched a joint operation in the forest to arrest the PO. Police also used armoured vehicles for this purpose, but failed to arrest him and his accomplices.
UPGRADATION: The Government Municipal Degree College will soon be upgraded to a university while MSc classes will also be introduced in the near future.
This was stated by District Nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq while speaking at a foundation-lying ceremony of the postgraduate block in the college. District Officer (Buildings) Sarfraz Butt said that a sum of Rs6.7 million was being spent on the construction of a new block. College principal Amanullah Khan and provincial parliamentary secretary Javed Akram also spoke on the occasion.
STRIKE: Lawyers of Gojra on Monday continued their strike to protest against the TMA over demolition of the chamber of a former bar secretary-general. The TMA had razed the chamber during its anti-encroachment drive a week ago.
CROP SOWN: Wheat crop has been sown on 375,625 acres of land, six percent more than the previous year, in the district during the current season. This was stated by District Officer (Agriculture) Mian Shafiq Muhammad.
