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QUETTA, July 7: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed police to arrest former Balochistan education minister Abdur Rehman Khetran and produce him on Friday in a corruption case. The apex court bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Javed Iqbal and Justice Faqir Mohammad Khokhar ordered that the accused should either deposit Rs12.8 million or complete his prison sentence in a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau.
The defendant’s counsel pleaded that he was not in the provincial capital and requested that he be given 10 days to appear.
FOUR DIE IN ACCIDENT: At least four people were killed and 12 others injured, four of them seriously, when a passenger coach collided with a truck near Dhadar on Thursday.
The driver and cleaner of the Quetta-bound coach and two others were killed when it hit the truck coming from the opposite direction. The bodies and injured were taken to the Dhadar Civil Hospital. Police said the cause of the accident was speeding. A case has been registered against the truck driver, who fled after the accident.
