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MULTAN, Oct 31: Bilal Mustafa Khar, former MPA and the son of Ghulam Mustafa Khar, has been arrested by law-enforcers in an acid-throwing case registered by Karachi police in 2000.
Napier Road police had registered a case under sections 324 and 336 PPC against Bilal Khar for mutilating the face of his wife, Fakhra. But, he had been at large since the registration of the case.
The incident gained country-wide attention when Bilal’s former stepmother Tehmina Durrani raised the matter of his brutality and the apathy of the law-enforcers to apprehend him at a press conference last year.
The Muzaffargarh district police officer received an information that Bilal was likely to reach the riverine belt of the Indus near Ghazi Ghat for hunting on Wednesday night. A special team was constituted to ensure his arrest. At about 4:45am, the police intercepted a truck near the Ghazi Ghat bridge and found Bilal hiding in it.
He has been locked in the Muzaffargarh city police station, while formalities are being completed to hand him over to the Karachi police.
NAZIM SHOT DEAD: A union council Nazim of Muzaffargarh district was shot dead in Alipur here on Wednesday night.
The Bait Mullahwala union council Nazim, Ghulam Farid Gabool, was on his way home when three armed men hiding in cotton fields opened fire on him near his village, Basti Nabi Bakhsh. The Nazim died on the spot.
His brother, Hazoor Bakhsh, has lodged an FIR with Alipur Saddar police.
THREE KILLED: Three people were killed while 18 others received serious injuries in a road accident near Qasba-Gujrat in the Muzzafargarh district.
A commuter van coming from Kot Addu to Multan overturned due to the bursting of one of its tyres. As a result, Muhammad Ramzan, Shahenshah and Sajjad died instantly while 18 others sustained critical wounds. Ten of them were admitted to the local DHQ Hospital while the remaining eight were shifted to the Nishter Hospital, Multan, for their serious condition.
