TOBA TEK SINGH: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced its decision to restart domestic operations from Faisalabad, with four weekly flights to Karachi starting from June 9.

The announcement was made by PIA General Manager Shafique Ahmad during a ceremony to honour top travel agents who sold the most PIA tickets in 2023-24.

Mr Ahmad said though the PIA was facing host of challenges, it kept commitment to maintaining international standards.

He said the travel agents played a crucial role in the airlines` success and encouraged them to submit viable suggestions for a long-term strategy to enhance PIA`s presence in Faisalabad.

CASE: A case was registered against former deputy mayor and PML-N leader Muhammad Amin Butt, Anjuman Tajiran general secretary Muhammad Saleem, and over 40 others for allegedly torturing a customs driver, threatening an inspector, and dam-aging a customs vehicle.

Complainant custom inspector Jamil Haider said in his FIR registered by Civil Lines police under sections 353, 427, 148, 149 and 186 of PPC, that customs officials raided Zeeshan Tyres, a tyre dealer`s godown in Jamia Market, and recovered smuggled tyres.

When the dealer failed to produce a receipt, the officials attempted to load the tyres into a mini truck. However, the accused and their accomplices attacked the officials, forcibly unloaded the tyres, and damaged the truck.

PROTEST: Residents of Rehmat Abad locality in Dijkot blocked traffic and set ablaze tyres on Dijk ot-S arshameerPainsara Road to protest Fesco`s failure to replace a burnt transformer.

The transformer had been taken away for repairs 24 hours earlier, but no alternative had been provided.

Protesters stopped a Fesco trolley and truck transporting a transformer and demanded that their transformer be returned before allowing the new one to be installed.