SIALKOT, Oct 19: Former governor Shahid Hamid has decided to contest the Senate election on the PML-Q ticket.

His elder brother Zahid Hamid has been elected MNA from NA-114, Sialkot-V, from the PML-Q platform.

Insiders told this correspondent on Saturday that the former governor was in consultation with the party high command in this regard.

They claimed that MNA-elect Zahid was likely to be inducted in the federal cabinet.

Five killed: Five people, including a woman, were killed while four others sustained injuries in accidents on Saturday.

Adnan Safdar and his wife Rubina died on the spot while their two-year-old son sustained serious injuries when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a roadside tree in a bid to save a bicyclist near Begowala village on the Sialkot-Sambrial-Wazirabad road.

The late Adnan Safdar is stated to be the brother of Wazirabad Naib Tehsildar Imran Safdar and a cousin of Chaudhry Shujaat Husain and Chaudhry Pervez Elahi.

Nasir, 10, was crushed to death under the wheels of a speeding passenger wagon (LOB-3265) on the Gujranwala-Daska-Sialkot road near Chhanga village.

Factory worker Zahid Masih was run over by a speeding bus (AJKA-7975) on the Sialkot-Pasrur road.

Labourer Saeed, 35, was hit and killed by an unidentified car near Talundi village, Uggoki.

Allama Iqbal Hospital’s Dr Nazir and his two minor daughters sustained serious injuries in a motorcycle accident in Sialkot city.

CASE REGISTERED: Police have registered a case against Sialkot district PPP president and a candidate for NA-114 Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas and 65 other party workers on the charges of harassing presiding officers, snatching ballot boxes from various polling stations and beating up workers of a rival party.

The former provincial minister was defeated in the election by Zahid Hamid of the PML-Q.

Police claimed to have arrested several of the accused workers.

Meanwhile, he told newsmen that police implicated them in a false case under political pressure.