Man electrocuted

ISLAMABAD, April 25: A man fell prey to his own trick of catching fish by electrocuting them on Wednesday. Fawadullah slipped into a nullah soon after he and his friends immersed the electrodes into water.

Police said the young party had arrived at the nullah located at Phulgran along with a generator for fishing. The group used to fish by immersing electrodes, attached to a powerful generator, into water which killed all the fish around them and made it quite easy for them to catch hundreds.

However, nature seemed to have had enough of the cruel practice and Fawadullah accidentally fell into the nullah as soon as the group threw live wires in it. His friends rushed to switch off the generator, fished him out and shifted him to the hospital but to no avail as doctors pronounced him dead.—Staff Reporter

Security at railway stations

TAXILA, April 25:  After the bomb blast at Lahore Railway Station on Tuesday and recovery of a bomb from a train in Attock on Wednesday, security at Taxila, Wah Cantt and Hassanabdal railway stations has been beefed up.

The Railway police officials said that a 15-20kg bomb was recovered from Awam Express on Wednesday and was defused by the Railway police officials at the Attock Railway Station.

Soon after the recovery, security and surveillance at all the railway stations of the district was intensified on the directives of Inspector General (IG) of Railway Police Syed Ibn-e-Hussain.

They said that the police officials at the railway stations in uniforms and civvies had been increased as the cops now were checking the passengers and their luggage with metal detectors while police commandos had been deployed in passenger trains.  He further said that the leaves of all the railway police officials had also been cancelled.—Correspondent

Two remanded

RAWALPINDI, April 25: Special judge (Narcotics) Shafqatullah Khan sent two accused in ephedrine scam on three-day physical remand into the custody of Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF).

According to details, Ansar Farooq – chief executive officer of Danas Pharmaceutical, Islamabad – and Iftikhar Khan Babar – chief executive officer of Berlex Lab International Multan – were facing charges of misusing the chemical.

Both were arrested on Tuesday from the Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi registry soon after their bail before arrest plea was rejected.—A Reporter

SHO arrested

CHAKWAL, April 25: Former Station House Officer (SHO) of city police station Talagang was arrested on Wednesday as his pre-arrest bail was cancelled.

SHO Saleem Akhtar was booked two months ago over the charges of subjecting two persons to torture at the police station. Afterwards he was suspended.

As a criminal case was registered against him, Saleem Akhtar managed to get the pre-arrest bail. On Wednesday, additional sessions judge cancelled his bail and ordered the police to arrest him.

SHO Akhtar tortured Mohammad Khan Najmi and his son Mohammad Bilal on February 28. The victims were father and brother of advocate Naheed Akhtar and the legal fraternity had been protesting against SHO’s brutality for the last two months.—Correspondent

Campaign concludes

ISLAMABAD, April 25:  The four-month long campaign against gender-based violence concluded on Wednesday.

As many as 22 organisations from across Pakistan participated in the campaign which was part of a five-year programme being implemented by ‘Aurat Foundation’ in support of USAID under the Gender Equity Programme (GEP) which aimed at facilitating behaviourial change in the society by enabling women to have an access to information, resources and institutions and improving societal attitudes towards women’s rights issues.

Over 900 events were organised under the GEP in the Punjab and Sindh while more than 50,000 people benefited by participating in these events.

The two-day event marking end of the four-month campaign was organised by the Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment. — Our Reporter