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8 dead, 40
wounded in
road accident
BAHAWALPUR: At least eight
persons were killed, 40 others injured a in road accident, when
a passenger bus loaded with pilgrims overturned near Bahawalpur,
said Rescue sources.
Sources told that 3 passenger
buses of pilgrims departed from in an area of Chak Hussain Kot,
McLeod Gunj of Manchanabad to participate in Urs of Lal Shahbaz
Qalandar. However, near Ramma Phattak one bus FDT-9399 suddenly
overturned while turning speedily.
As a result including 2 year
child, others 7 persons died on the spot while others 40 were
injured including women and children. The injured were rushed to
Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur for medical treatment, where
doctors informed about the critical condition of 8 persons.
While police registered a case
against the driver M. Rafique for driving bus speedily and
carelessly, however, the driver succeeded to flee away from the
scene. - Online
4 persons
killed, woman injured during firing
KARACHI: Four persons were
killed and a woman was injured in various incidents of firing in
Karachi, said Police.
As per Police sources here on
Thursday within the jurisdiction of Azizabad Police Station,
unidentified men abducted 2 persons, tortured them and later
gunned them down. They left behind the dead and fled away while
police after recovering bodies shifted them to Abbassi
Shaheed Hospital. Police could
not identify the bodies, however, police said that both seems to
be Afghans from their appearance.
In a separate incident in the
bounds of Sarjani Town Police Station, Sector 4-D armed men
crossed the threshold of a house and opened fire, as a result 30
year old Atif s died on the spot while his wife 22 years old
Huma sustained injured. While Police has shifted the dead body
and injured to Abbasi
Shaheed Hospital.
According to Police sources Atif
was in service of Community Police and belonged to a political
party. Police has lodged case against the assassins and started
investigation.
While in Sher Shah, near Phanka
Hotel armed men opened fire and killed Wahid Gull. His dead body
has been shifted to Civil
Hospital for autopsy through Cheepa Ambulance, said police sources. - Online
Sunni Ittehad
urges foolproof security at all shrines
DASKA: Sunni Ittehad Council of
Pakistan has urged the incumbent government to ensure the
foolproof security at all the shrines in a bid to avert any
untoward incident in future.
Addressing the "Tahafuz-e-
Mazaraat-e-Auliya Conference" at Daska city here, the speakers
pointed out that security of the shrines was not made foolproof
by the government despite repeated appeals made by the Sunni
Ittehad Council of Pakistan.
They declared that the suicide
bombers attacking on the shrines were the killers of Islam, Pakistan, peace and humanity.
The conference urged the government to also bring the facts
about the ghastly Data Darbar Lahore suicidal bombings before
the nation and silence and governmental negligence over this
matter would never be tolerated by anyone.
The Fateha was offered for all
the Data Darbar bombings victims. They alleged that the
government has miserably failed in arresting the accused
terrorists.
Addressing the conference,
Chairman Pakistan Sunni Ittehad Council of Pakistan & MNA
Sahibzada Fazal strongly condemned the ghastly suicide bombing
incidents at Data Darbar in Lahore and brutal killings of the
innocent people there in these terror incidents, saying that
Islam was religion of peace and love. - PPI
‘Punjab under
heavy debt of over Rs100b’
Lahore: Chaudhry Parvez Elahi,
the senior central leader of Pakistan Muslim league has alleged
that contrary to claims to date Punjab is under a heavy debt of
Over Rs. 100 billion and the Punjab Govt.'s announcement in the
recently concluded Punjab Assembly Session of bringing the
provincial over draft back to zero by June 30th has proven to be
a blatant lie.
Chaudhry Parvez Elahi expressed
these views while talking with senior party leaders here on
Thursday
He has also alleged that the
corrupt rulers after first rendering Punjab bankrupt are now busy in an illegal squandering of local govt.'s funds.
He has also blamed the self
proclaimed "Khadim-e-Ala" to have posted his trusted henchmen in
Gujranwala to replicate the Gujrat election rigging plan.
Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said that the ruling mafia was all set to
hit the poor man with a new flood of inflation during the
forthcoming holy month of Ramadan. He alleged the incumbent
Punjab Govt. of being a collaborator with the food mafia and
profiteering at the expense of the poor and helpless people of
Punjab. Chaudhry Parvez Elahi strongly condemned the Punjab Govt.'s failure in
curbing crimes and said that only in
Lahore 273 robberies had taken
place in the last 4 days. Slamming at the Punjab Govt.'s claim
of bringing the provincial over draft back to zero by June 30th,
Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said that behind the facade of such false
promises the rulers after emptying the provincial treasury were
now busy eating up the funds allocated for local Govts.
He called this act of the Punjab
Govt. as nothing less than criminal as the local Govt.'s funds
were meant for solving the problems at the grass roots. He
blamed the failure of the Govt. in controlling the devastation
caused during the ongoing moon soon season due to the non
availability of funds at the local level. Chaudhry Parvez Elahi
said that in his five years as Chief Minister of Punjab, he had
made all out efforts to financially empower the local Govts for
the good of masses but the present rulers had left no stone
unturned in making the local Govts dysfunctional thus denying
the people their basic civic rights and amenities. Chaudhry
Parvez Elahi declared the success of PML supported candidate in
Sargodha PP-34 bye-election as historic and said that the result
was indicative of a strong public dislike for N-League in Punjab. He alleged that the Chief Minister Punjab's senior henchmen had been
deputed to replicate the Gujrat election rigging plan in
Gujranwala. He said that the
people of Gujranwala will frustrate such plans and reject
N-League the same way it was rejected by the people of Sargodha.
- Online
Javed Hashmi’s
health improving, to be discharged in 2 days
LAHORE: Doctors at the Lahore
General Hospital have said that the PML-N leader Javed Hashmi health is constantly
improving and he is expected to be discharged from the hospital
in the next two days. A six member medical team headed by
principal PGMI/LGH professor of Neurosurgery Doctor Tariq
Salahuddin conducted another CT scan of Javed Hashmi in which
greater improvement was noticed comparatively.
"Javed Hashmi's health is
improving constantly with the help of prays and medical
treatment," the doctors said.
Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz
Sharif was constantly in touch with Doctor Tariq Salahuddin to
know about the health of Javed Hashmi. Professor Tariq
Salahuddin said he was thankful to the Almighty and his team
who discharged around the clock duty to ensure better treatment
to Javed Hashmi.
The medical team includes
Professor Tariq Salahuddin, Professor Ghayas Nabi Taib,
Associate professor Naveed Ashraf, Associate professor Shahid
Waheed, Um-e-Baneen and Doctor Jahangir. |