TOBA TEK SINGH: A former local PML-N leader has been booked in a case of attacking a police station in 2025 on the directions of Sheikhupura Additional District and Sessions Judge Shakil Ahmad.
The Sheikhupura B Division police registered the case on Friday on the complaint of a former SHO against a local PML-N leader and his 20 accomplices for attacking a police station, attempting to take away an arrested accused and blocking the road outside the police station on Nov 3, 2025.
Complainant former SHO Shah Faisal claimed in his FIR that accused Mahmood Moon Khan entered the police station along with 20 others and forced him to release his driver and a tractor trolley being held in a case registered under section 6 of the Sound System Act. The complainant claimed that on his refusal, the accused not only threatened to get him terminated from service but also scuffled with him and used abusive words. Accused Moon Khan also attempted to take away his arrested driver and tractor trolley, however, cops foiled his attempt, he claimed.
The complainant said the accused then went outside raising slogans against the police and blocked traffic on the road. Shah Faisal added in the FIR that 12 days after the incident, accused Moon Khan obtained a fake medicolegal certificate of torture against him and got a case registered against him at the same police station on Nov 15 while he was suspended by the higher officials.
On ex-SHO’s petition, the court ordered the police to register a case, however, no arrest had so far been made.
BOMB SCARE: The Madina Town police arrested a man on Friday over a false report of a bomb in a car parked in the Hockey Stadium area.
According to the police, a caller, Rai Shahbaz Kharal, a resident of Haider Garden Jaranwala Road, came to the Hockey Stadium to buy a car and saw a woofer amplifier in the trunk of a car. Police said that he informed the police about the presence of a bomb in a car. After receiving the call, police and other law enforcement agencies reached the spot, but the caller disappeared after switching off his phone.
Madina Town SHO Adeel Cheema arrested the accused after tracing him and a case was registered against the arrested accused.
INJURED: Four cops were injured when a van of the Hasilpur City police fell into a nullah in Balochni police area of Faisalabad late on Thursday night.
Police said a police team was conducting a raid to arrest an accused in a case registered at the Hasilpur City police station. Police said the driver dozed off and the van went into the nullah. The injured include a female cop and three male cops.
CONVICTED: Faisalabad Special Central Court Judge Shamshad Ali Rana handed down on Friday nine months imprisonment along with a fine of Rs60,000 to a human trafficker Muteeur Rehman of Gujranwala.
The Faisalabad FIA had arrested the convict a year ago from whom Rs3.4 million were also recovered, which he had extorted from a citizen named Waleed Akbar.
A press release said that the convict had first sent the complainant to Mauritania with the promise to send him to Spain. However, the complainant was kept in confinement and was severely tortured to extort more money from his family. He managed to escape and reached the Mauritania government, after which he was deported to Pakistan. It added that the bail pleas of the convict had been rejected by the trial court, the High Court and the Supreme Court.
ELECTROCUTED: A cable operator was electrocuted on Thursday in Awan Chowk of Khanewal on Friday.
Rescue 1122 said that deceased Ajab Gul (25) was repairing a cable on an electric pole when his hand touched a live electric wire. As a result, he received a heavy electric shock and died instantly.
Meanwhile, a young girl staying as a guest in her uncle’s house in Gojra Chak 306 JB committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan.
Irfan Siddiq Maseeh, the uncle of deceased Muskan Nasir Maseeh, informed the Gojra Saddar police that he did not know the reason behind her suicide.
Police have shifted the body to the Gojra THQ Hospital for autopsy, while her uncle has been arrested for investigation.
Published in Dawn, February 28th, 2026