GUJRANWALA, Feb 27: Robbers looted the house of a former president of Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Model Town and killed a woman in a failed robbery bid in two strikes on Tuesday.
Four outlaws entered the house of Maulvi Muhammad Anwar when housemaid opened the door in response to doorbell. They locked the family in a room after snatching gold jewellery from women. They collected 80 tolas of jewellery worth around Rs1.2 million, Rs30,000 in cash, eight mobile phones and other valuables and escaped.
The maid told police that the accused came to the house in a car which they parked outside the main gate. They remained in the house for about one hour.
Robbers intercepted the car of Sialkot industrialist Kashif who was going back from Lahore along with his family. They opened fire when his brother-in-law Younis, who was driving the car, accelerated it. A bullet hit the wife of industrialist, Rizwana, who died on the spot while his relative Hasan Sami suffered injuries. However, Younis remained unhurt.
Police have registered a case.
RESENTMENT: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) expressed resentment over deteriorating law and order situation and increase in the incidents of robberies and demanded that solid steps should be taken to arrest the trend.
A PMA meeting held here on Tuesday with president Dr Sardar Riaz Ahmad in the chair condemned robberies in the clinic of Ikramullah Warraich and other doctors and demanded that the police should provide protection to doctors and masses.
EXECUTION: A murder convict was executed here on Tuesday at the central jail while his body was handed over to his heirs.
Reports said Munir had killed four people, including a woman, in Phalia (Mandi Bahauddin) over some dispute in 1996 with the help of his cousin Rukhsar. The local anti-terrorism court No 1 had awarded them death sentence. The LHC and the SC had upheld the decision while the president rejected their mercy appeals.
Munir was executed at Gujranwala jail and Rukhsar at Gujrat.
HUMAN SMUGGLERS: The Federal Investigation Agency claimed on Tuesday to have nabbed two human smugglers in a raid and got their two-day physical remand from a local court for further investigation.
Reports said an FIA party on a tip-off raided the houses of Hanif and Iftikhar and arrested them. The accused had received Rs1 million from complainants Khalid and Javed for sending them abroad. But neither the accused sent them abroad nor returned their money.