Youth killed over enmity

ATTOCK, July19: A young man was found beheaded in Fatehjang on Thursday.

Police said they were informed that the head of a young man was lying near the general bus stand on Rawalpindi road. The police reached the spot and shifted the body part to hospital. The victim was later identified as Noor Rehman.  The police said the body of the victim had not yet been recovered.

On June 17, a local resident, Mohammad Saeed, had lodged a complaint with the Fatehjang police against the deceased alleging that he had abducted his wife.

The Fatehjang police registered a murder case against Saeed on the suspicion of killing Rehman. However, no arrest has been made so far.—Correspondent

Nine ‘outlaws’ arrested

ATTOCK, July 19: Attock police claimed to have seized narcotics and weapons and arrested nine alleged outlaws in separate raids in the district.

According to a statement issued here on Thursday, district police seized 2.3 Kg of hashish, 500 grams of heroin, five revolvers, five bullets and two bottles of liquor from the possession of nine outlaws in different parts of the district.—Correspondent

Traffic signals

ISLAMABAD, July 19: The Capital Development Authority on Thursday launched a project to run all the traffic signals on solar energy to reduce its electricity bills amounting to billions of rupees annually.

As a pilot project, the CDA chairman, Farkhand Iqbal, inaugurated the conversion of a traffic signal on Kashmir Highway near Convention Centre.

“Each traffic signal consumes electricity worth Rs1.2 million annually and this solar system will not be a costly solution,” said the CDA chief while talking to the media on the occasion.

He said gradually all traffic signals would be solarised to help bridge the energy deficit.—APP

Development of AJK

MUZAFFARABAD, July 19: Federal Minister for Communications Dr Arbab Alamghir has said that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government in Islamabad considered development of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) as its foremost responsibility because the people of Pakistan and Kashmir were linked to each other through the bond of love and affection.

“Kashmir is jugular vein of Pakistan and we will religiously maintain fidelity to the Kashmiris and their cause till our last drop of blood,” vowed the minister at the groundbreaking ceremony of 35 km long Kohala-Muzaffarabad Expressway, to be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 2.5 billion.

Speaking on the occasion, AJK Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed expressed his gratitude to President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf for taking personal interest in the AJK’s development.—Staff Correspondent