SARGODHA, July 27: Sialkot district and sessions judge Chaudhry Zafar Hussain said that he had repeatedly asked the police administration to prolong negotiations and seek the help of army commandos to avert any misfortune.

He expressed his views while talking to this correspondent at the Quran khwani of slain civil judge Asif Mehmood Cheema here on Sunday.

He said the judiciary had suffered an irreparable loss by the killing of three honest and dedicated judges besides injuries to four other judges due to unprofessional attitude of the police.

The DSJ said that this aspect could not be ruled out that civil judges were hit by the firing of police because the culprits had changed their dresses after taking them hostage.

Expressing his surprise over the statement of police highups as to why a large number of judges visited the jail, he said it was a routine inspection and provided no excuse for negligence of jail or police authorities.

Quran khwani was attended by Sargodha DSJ Khawaja Imtiaz Ahmed, senior civil judge Zarfarullah Tarrar and other members of judiciary and lawyers besides scores of other people.

FIVE KILLED: Five people, including two women, were killed in different incidents in and around the city during the last 24 hours.

Shaukat Ali strangled Tasleem Bibi when she was taking lunch for her father in the fields in Amirpur. According to police, the deceased refused the proposal of her marriage with Shaukat.

Armyman Muhammad Inayat killed his sister Farzana in the presence of her husband on suspicion of having relations with a man of the same village.

The body of Nazeer Ahmed, killed by some unknown person(s), was found in the workshop of GTS on the Faisalabad Road. He was an employee of Muhammad Akram.

Muhammad Ali Shah was killed in Miani while Kafayatullah and Allah Yar killed Mukhtar Bibi while she was asleep in her house along with her husband Yousaf at Chak 138-SB.