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GUJRANWALA, Jan 21: The range police claim having arrested 12 proclaimed offenders and recovered illegal arms from their possession in the Pabi border area of Azad Kashmir.
DIG Malik Mohammad Iqbal told newsmen here on Tuesday that some 500 police officials carried out a commando action against the criminals.
Those arrested included Mohammad Arshad, Javaid Iqbal, Abdul Razzaq, Abdul Aziz, Tauseef Zia, Saghir Ahmad, Waqar Ali, Sikandar, Safeer Ahmad, Mohammad Yasin and Karamat Husain.
A Kalashnikov, a pump action, rifles, guns and hundreds of rounds were recovered from them.
LOOTED: Highwaymen looted passengers of a wagon, a bus and two tongas and killed a van driver on resistance in four strikes in and around the city on Tuesday.
A wagon was on its way to Gujranwala from Sheikhupura when it was intercepted by four armed men near Manso Kotli. The dacoits snatched cash, jewellery and wristwatches from passengers and escaped.
A Narang Mandi-bound bus was intercepted by three robbers near Sohawa. They looted cash and gold ornaments from passengers and fled.
Four highwaymen killed a van driver, Abdul Karim, in Veroki and drove away with his vehicle.
Six armed men looted passengers of two tongas on Wahando Road.
CRITICISM: Leaders of various political and religious parties have criticized prime minister’s relief package for the poor.
Speaking at a meeting here on Tuesday, PPP divisional president and MNA Chaudhry Imtiaz Safdar, MPAs Chaudhry Zahid Pervaiz, Mian Saudul Hasan Dar, Chaudhry Shabbir Ahmad and Shakeelur Rahman said the government was spending hundreds of thousands of rupees on the renovation of ministries’ offices and providing only Rs200 per month to the poor and widows.
The leaders of Jamaat-i-Islami, Pakistan Tehrik Insaaf, PML-N, District Bar Association and others also criticized the relief package.
