TOBA TEK SINGH: An anti-terrorism court of Faisalabad issued on Thursday death warrants for a man who had killed six members of his family over a property dispute nine years ago.

He will be hanged in the Toba District Jail on May 26.

According to the prosecution, convict Noor Ahmad of Chak 314-GB, Toba Tek Singh, demanded his father Nawab Ali his share of five acres land that was denied to him due to his alleged bad attitude. Instead, his father transferred Ahmad’s share of land to his other two sons.

Ahmad lived with his in-laws for one year in another village. On March 9 in 2006, he killed his father and brother, Ghafran Ahmad, when they were irrigating farmland. He later went to village and killed his other brother Akram’s four children and injured his wife.

NAB: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will set up character building societies across the district, aimed at creating awareness among the citizens on corruption.

This was stated by NAB Deputy Director Muhammad Sajid during his address to the participants of a workshop.

He said members of societies would be selected from the public and students. District Officer Coordination Asif Dogar, assistant commissioners of Toba, Pirmahal and Kamalia and others were present.

BOOKED: Kamalia City police booked a man for taking extortion from shopkeepers.

A cloth shop owner, Asif, informed police the suspect, Javed, along his accomplices demanded Rs200,000 extortion from him at gunpoint. He gave them Rs10,000 and promised to pay the remaining amount later on.

In another complaint, Babar, a jeweller from Sadar Bazaar, told police that the same suspect and his accomplices took Rs200,000 extortion from him.

Published in Dawn, May 22nd, 2015

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