Two seminary students killed
TAXILA, July 1: Two students of a local seminary were killed while four others were injured – one of them critically – as roof of the under-construction mosque adjacent to the seminary caved in at Wah Cantonment on Sunday.
Police and hospital sources told Dawn that some seminary students were working on the under-construction mosque in Sector-22 of Wah Cantt when its roof caved in. Resultantly, two students identified as Mohammad Rafeeq and Muqaddas died at the spot while four other students identified as Abdul Majid, Abdul Manan, Zahid Hussain and Mohammad Shahid got injured. The injured were taken to the POF hospital where condition of Zahid Hussain was stated to be critical. Wah Cantonment police registered a case and started further investigation.— Correspondent
Couple shot dead
TAXILA, July 1: A couple was shot dead over monetary dispute at Lalazar Colony on Sunday.
Police sources, while quoting a family member, said S. M. had borrowed Rs200,000 from M.S. a few years ago. The latter had been demanding his money back for quite some time but S.M. refused to return it.
On Sunday, when M.S. came over to his house, S.M. exchanged hot words with him over the issue. As a result, M.S. became angry and shot S.M. dead. When his wife, M.B. came to his rescue, he shot her dead too.
The bodies were handed over to the family for burial after autopsy at Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Taxila.
Police have registered a case against the accused and started investigation with no arrest till filing of this news report.— Correspondent
Girl commits suicide
RAWALPINDI, July 1: The body of a young orphan girl who committed suicide by jumping into Leh Nullah on Saturday – apparently after failing to buy expensive books and notebooks for her young siblings – was recovered from the nullah on Sunday, police said.
Farzand Bibi 17, a resident of Gulistan Colony whose father had died some four months ago was the eldest of her four sisters and three brothers. On Saturday afternoon, she went to market to purchase some books and notebooks for her younger sisters and brothers but as she did not have enough money, she returned home dejected.
Police while quoting the family of the victim said that as she returned home empty-handed, she looked extremely worried and gloomy. By the sunset, she left the house and later committed suicide by jumped into Leh Nullah.
The rescuers started searching for her body soon after the incident was reported by some residents but as darkness prevailed the search operation had to be suspended. On Sunday, the rescuers traced her body and fished it out. It was later handed over to the family. Police said the abject poverty seemed to be the motive behind the suicide.—Staff Reporter
Power outages
GUJAR KHAN, July 1: Prolonged power outages in the city and surrounding areas have made the life unbearable for the residents in the sweltering summer.
They have complained that the government was making tall claims of controlling loadshedding while the situation was growing from bad to worse with the passage of time.
“The intermittent power outages were forcing the residents to pass sleepless nights.
The daily wagers were finding it really hard to earn their livelihood under the miserable state of affairs,” a resident complained requesting the Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to take measures for improving the power supply to his constituency in particular and the country in general.— Correspondent