MULTAN, Dec 21: Law-enforcers in Khanewal claim to have busted two alleged gangs of highwaymen and dacoits. The police claimed to have recovered Rs6.3 million of the plundered money from one of the gangs. Among other stolen goods recovered from the gangs were a car, pick-up, a tractor-trolley and motorbikes.

Ringleaders of both the gangs had also been rounded up. They were identified as Qasim of Faisalabad and Nasir Ali alias Nasiri of Kabirwala. The other arrested were Dildar, Ilyas and Riaz.

The Qasim gang was allegedly involved in 13 cases registered with various police stations of Khanewal, Multan and Muzaffargarh while the Nasir gang had seven cases lodged against them in Khanewal and Lodhran districts.

The Qasim gang had allegedly snatched Rs7 million in cash at gunpoint from staff of a cotton ginning factory when it was returning after drawing the amount from a bank in the precinct of Kabirwala city police station on Nov 1.

Similarly, the gang was held responsible for looting Rs1.3 million from the staff of a textile mill in the jurisdiction of the same Kabirwala city police station.

BZU: Dr Abdul Qadus Sohaib has been elected president of the Bahauddin Zakariya University's academic staff association on Tuesday. Dr Sohaib of the Teachers Forum bagged 129 votes while his opponent Prof Fayyaz Ahmad Husain of the teachers association could secure 91 votes.