TOBA TEK SINGH: A man died while 16 people were injured in various fog-related road accidents in the area around Faisalabad on Sunday.

In the first incident, a motorcyclist died in a fog-related accident in the Marzipura locality of Faisalabad.

Rescue 1122 identified the man as Nasir Ali (32) who was hit by a mini-truck. The accident left him critically wounded and he succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital.

In the second fog-related incident, eight people were injured when a bus hit a motorcycle-rickshaw near Gogera Branch Canal’s Sunehri rest house on Toba-Chichawatni Road in a fog-related accident.

Rescue 1122 said four of the injured received minor wounds and they were given first aid at the spot; however, four others were shifted to the district headquarters hospital as they were injured critically. They included Perveen Bibi (30), Nadeem (28), Ramzana (25) and Jiwan Bibi (40). All were of the same family and residents of Kamalia’s Anwar Town locality. They were going to Kamalia from Rajana while the bus was coming from the opposite direction.

In the third incident, five persons were injured critically when two cars collided head on at Gojra near Adda Bashirabad located on Gojra-Moongi Road.

Rescue 1122 said a car was going to Samundri’s Chak 33-JB from Gojra while the other was coming from the opposite direction and was on the way to Jhang. As a result of the collision, Abid (26), his wife Rabia (20), Amer (30), Zubair (41) and Qaiser (45) received injuries. They were shifted to Gojra Tehsil Headquarters Hospital by the rescuers.

In the fourth incident, a trailer turned over near the Sadhar Bypass Chowk on the Jhang Road in Faisalabad.

According to Rescue 1122, the driver of the trailer, Rasalat Hussain (20) was driving the vehicle to Sargodha from Jhang. Due to the poor visibility, he could not see the road clearly and the trailer turned turtle on a turn. Rasalat was critically injured in the accident. He was shifted to the Allied Hospital.

In the fifth fog-related accident, a van rammed into a trailer laden with steel bars on the Lahore Road in Faisalabad. As a result of the accident, the van driver, identified as Ali Ayub (21) was injured. Rescue 1122 shifted him to the DHQ hospital.

In the sixth incident, a van fell into a canal near Chak 270-GB on Rajana-Kamalia Road. As a result, the van driver, identified as Muhammad Hussain (40), was seriously injured. He was admitted to the Rajana Rural Health Centre.

KILLED: Celebratory firing took the life of a minor girl at Chak 432-JB of tehsil Jaranwala in district Faisalabad.

In the first information report (FIR) registered with Satiana police, complainant Munir Ahmad alleged that in the wedding ceremony of Saqlain Mustafa, five guests, namely Hassan Umer, Ikram Aslam, Muhammad Aslam, Abdullah and Qamar Javed, resorted to the firing into the air. When Ahmad stopped them from doing so, they opened indiscriminate fire at his house. As a result of the firing by suspects, Ahmad’s 11-year-old sister Insha Bibi received bullet injuries and died instantly.

A press release issued by City Police Officer Syed Khalid Mahmood Hamdani claimed that police arrested one of the suspects, Hassan Umer, and raids were being conducted to arrest others.

QUAID-I-AZAM: A cake-cutting ceremony was held in connection with the birth anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah at the Government Crescent Model Higher Secondary School, Faisalabad.

ADCG Faisal Sultan, CEO DEA Iftikhar Khan, DOs education Malik Manzoor, Raheela Bano, group director Nasir Ali Zia, principal Mian Saeed, Muhammad Sadiq, Muhammad Akhtar Butt, Marva Basra, Anzal Iftikhar, Ayesha Siddiqa and others addressed the gathering and paid tributes to the founder of the country.

PTI: On the call of PTI chief Imran Khan, hundreds of the party workers took out an ‘election krao, mulk bachao’ rally in Faisalabad.

The rally started from Koh-i-Noor Chowk on the Jaranwala Road and marched through different roads of the city before culminating at the District Council Chowk. The rally was addressed by PTI city president and provincial mines minister Chaudhry Latif Nazar Gujjar and other office-bearers of the party.

The speakers condemned the alleged intrigues of the federal government to topple the PTI-PML-Q alliance government in Punjab. They claimed that the general election would be held within the next few months in which the PTI would get more than two-thirds majority in national and provincial assemblies.

Published in Dawn, December 26th, 2022