SIALKOT: Four youths were killed on Thursday while the fifth one sustained serious injuries in a fatal road accident near Maalipur village along Sialkot-Pasrur Road.

Pasrur-based Ali, Adnan, Qamar, Azhar and Usman (aged 22 to 25 years) were traveling to Pasrur from Sialkot by their car which hit a roadside tree near Maalipur village. The impact of speeding left Ali, Adnan, Qamar and Azhar dead at the scene while Usman sustained serious injuries and was shifted to the Mayo Hospital, Lahore, due to his critical condition.

Rescue 1122 shifted the bodies to a local hospital for an autopsy and later handed them over to the heirs. They were laid to rest in their native graveyard at Pasrur city in the presence of hundreds of mourners.

The city looked gloomy when four funerals were carried to the graveyard simultaneously for burial.

FIA: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested two human traffickers in Daska on Thursday.

FIA Divisional Deputy Director Khalid Anees said the FIA teams had arrested Hafiz Dilawar Husain in Baqarpur village and Shahzad Akhtar in Mooseywala village, both proclaimed offenders in several cases related to human trafficking.

The FIA sent them behind bars.

Air Sial fleet: Several overseas Pakistanis have shown interest in investing in the grand project of ‘Air Sial’ -- an airline which is the brainchild of local exporters.

Air Sial Executive Board chairman Fazal Jillani told the directors and investors of the company at the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Thursday that the project of Air Sial airline had met with great success in its initial stage. He said 35 leading overseas Pakistanis were keen on investing in the mega project and the management was actively considering their offers.

He said the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) had registered Air Sial Limited. Exporter Ameen Ehsan has been appointed the CEO of the company. He said Air Sial had doubled the number of its directors to 200 following the growing demand of the project.

He said the exporters would complete this mega project of establishing their own private international airline on a self-help basis. Boeing aircraft manufacturing companies of Europe had contacted the Air Sial management for a deal, he said.

He expressed hope that the airline would be operational at the end of the year and its logo would be unveiled soon.

Published in Dawn, June 10th, 2016