MULTAN, April 1: The district police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested one of the ‘most-wanted’ fugitives belonging to the defunct Lashkar-i-Jhangvi.
SP (investigation) Malik Mureed Husain told newsmen that a police team, on a tip-off, raided a hideout and pinioned Shabbir Ahmad alias Fauji at Sameejabad locality.
He said the suspect was wanted in a number of cases of sectarian killings, including those at Khana-i-Farhang (Multan) and Dokota (Mailsi). He was carrying head-money of Rs1 million.
The SP said the suspect was on the run since the government had decided to clamp down on terrorists involved in sectarian killings. He claimed that there was information that Fauji might target Multan during the last Muharram.
He also said Fauji was assumed to be the right-hand man of LJ chief Riaz Basra, who along with his accomplices was killed in an ‘encounter’ in Vehari last year.
APP quoted Fauji as saying that he had spent several years in Afghanistan.
RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT: The judge of the local anti-terrorism court No 2 on Tuesday awarded 12-year rigorous imprisonment each to two persons, who injured police officials in an encounter.
The judge also ordered the convicts to pay Rs20,000 each to the two constables injured in the shootout.
According to the prosecution, a team of Mailsi Saddar police station, led by Inspector Ghulam Mustafa Pahore, raided the hideout of Zahoor Ahmad alias Zahoora Rath, Ashiq Mewati and Shaukat Ali alias Ghuma Rath on July 15, 2000, near Pul Fateh Sher to arrest them in a motorcycle snatching case.
Seeing the police, the outlaws opened fire at the raiders and fled away. Constables, Muhammad Ishaq and Faqeer Husain, were injured. Later, the police arrested Mewati and Ghuma Rath while their ring leader Zahoora Rath was killed in another police ‘encounter.’
RESULT: The Bahauddin Zakariya University on Tuesday declared the result of MA Pakistan Studies (Part-I), first annual examination, 2002.
As many as 307 candidates appeared in the examination. Of them, 141 were declared successful at a percentage of 46.38.