TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 20: Seven people kidnapped a 12-year-old boy after snatching Rs50,000 in cash from his father on Saturday night.

Muhammad Yousaf, of Chak 486-JB, was going to Chak 320-JB from Toba along with his son Muhammad Mansha, a Class VI student. When they reached near the village, seven unidentified men took them on gunpoint, snatched a cellular phone and Rs50,000 in cash from Yousaf and took Mansha along with them.

The Sadar SHO said that the suspects had thrown the cellular phone before fleeing. The police, however, registered a case. SWINDLED:

A man took away cattle head worth over Rs3 million after cheating different villagers in Nawan Lahore area before Eidul Azha.

According to the police, Rana Muhammad Husain and several other farmers complained to them on Saturday that a man, who introduced himself as cattle trader with three fake names, Maqbool, Babar and Aslam, in different villages, had taken away dozens of sacrificial animals after making some advance payment with a promise to pay the remaining amount at Nawan Lahore after few hours. They said that they could not find the man when they went to receive the part payment.

Opinion

Editorial

IMF’s unease
24 May, 2024

IMF’s unease

THE first round of ‘engagement’ between Pakistan and the IMF over the former’s request for a larger and longer...
Belated recognition
24 May, 2024

Belated recognition

WITH Wednesday’s announcement by three European states that they intend to recognise Palestine as a state later...
App for GBV survivors
24 May, 2024

App for GBV survivors

GENDER-based violence is caught between two worlds: one sees it as a crime, the other as ‘convention’. The ...
Energy inflation
Updated 23 May, 2024

Energy inflation

The widening gap between the haves and have-nots is already tearing apart Pakistan’s social fabric.
Culture of violence
23 May, 2024

Culture of violence

WHILE political differences are part of the democratic process, there can be no justification for such disagreements...
Flooding threats
23 May, 2024

Flooding threats

WITH temperatures in GB and KP forecasted to be four to six degrees higher than normal this week, the threat of...