TOBA TEK SINGH: Two bubblegum factory owners were arrested by Thikriwala, Faisalabad police on Monday for using printed packing labels of their products, showing slogans of the insurgents of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA).

According to the first information report (FIR) registered under Section 505(2) of the PPC, Tahir Muhayuddin and Muhammad Ahmad were using printed labels based on anti-state slogans of the Baloch separatists. Nine sacks and dozens of cartons of bubblegums had also been confiscated.

GANG RAPE: A divorced woman was gang-raped at Chak 216-RB of Faisalabad.

In the FIR registered under Section 375-A of PPC, the complainant woman, a resident of Chak 128/GB, Jaranwala, alleged that a woman had taken her away to the outhouse of suspect on promise of a job where he and his one unidentified accomplice gang-raped her at gunpoint.

Published in Dawn, February 4th, 2025