TOBA TEK SINGH: A Faisalabad magistrate has declared as proclaimed offenders 51 PML-N leaders and workers in a case registered by Factory Area police on the charge of blocking roads and their involvement in vandalism during a Maryam Nawaz rally on July 22, 2019, on her arrival in Faisalabad.
Magistrate Section 30 Abdul Razag announced the verdict on Wednesday while attested copies of the order were released on Friday.
The accused PML-N people also include Federal Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik, Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry, MNA Shahbaz Babar Gujjar, MPAs Rao Kashif Rahim and Jaffer Ali Hocha, former MNAs Akram Ansari, Mian Abdul Manan, Ijaz Virk and Mian Javed Latif.
The court issued permanent arrest warrants for the accused and directed the Factory Area SHO to produce the accused before the courton Oct12.
PROTEST: Scores of Suthra Punjab Agency workers staged a protest demonstration at the District Council Chowk in Faisalabad on Friday against alleged salary cuts, depriving them of social security facilities, non-availability of leaves and non-provision of other basic rights.
The protesters, led by Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM) Chairman Baba Latif Ansari, blocked traffic and raised slogans in support of their demands and against the alleged misbehaviour of the SPA MD.
During the protest, SPA MD Abid Hussain Bhatti asked the workers to end the protest but they refused to accept his direction.
Afterwards, City Assistant Commissioner Aurangzeb Goraya took the representatives of the protesters to his office, where he listened to theirgrievances and assured them that practical steps would be taken to immediately resolve their issues. On his assurance, they ended their protest and announced if their demands were not met, they would again launch a protest.
The protesters had raised concerns over salary cuts and non-payment of salaries to 187 rickshaw drivers.
NIKAH REGISTRAR HELD: A Faisalabad FIA team claims to have arrested a nikah registrar in Burewala for performing an online nikah of a minor girl with a man residing in Saudi Arabia.
An FIA official said that the raid was carried out by an FIA team led by SHO Ajmal Hussain.
According to the FIR registered on Aug 15, during immigration checking at Faisalabad airport, Hira Firdous was stopped from travelling to Saudi Arabia as her age was found to be 13 years, while the marriage certificate she was carrying was also found to be fake.
It said that she was being smuggled to Saudi Arabia on an Umrah visa by showing her as the wife of accused Fiazur Rehman of Burewala who was living in Saudi Arabia. Af ter investigation, it was revealed that Qari Ziaur Rehman of Burewala had performed the nikah of the minor girl and an FIA team arrested him from Burewala on Friday.
ARRESTED: The Frontier Works Organisation arrested two of its employees on the motorway M-4 for being involved in alleged theft.
According to sources, during an operation conducted on the instructions of Motorway Commanding Officer retired Col Sajid Akhtar, employees Hussain Ahmad and Arbab Ali, were caught redhanded stealing anti-glare sheets installed in the middle of the motorway.
They were handed over to the Shorkot Cantonment police.