TOBA TEK SINGH: On Wednesday, a seminar on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was held at the Government College University in Faisalabad to educate students on the CPEC initiatives.

The economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the CPEC were addressed by chief guest Dr Azim Sardar, a resource person from the Punjab Urban Unit Planning and Development Board.

He claims that the initiative will alter Pakistan`s fate. Instead of focusing on political and regional divisions, the project should be executed in a patriotic spirit.

The Orange Train, highways, the GT Road, and the Quaid-i-Azam and Allama Iqbal Industrial Estates were also built as part of this project. He said that the corridor fostered agricultural innovation through training seminars.

BOOKED: The Waryamwala police in Jhang booked on Wednesday a bus company`s Malloana Mor office manager Abid Shah and his 17 accomplices for torturing two students, both cousins, and attempting to kill one of them.

Complainant Muhammad Sharif claimed in his FIR that he and his cousin Wasim were not allowed by the driver and the conductor to get on the bus, over which after an exchange of arguments, the driver called his accomplices. The driver ran over Wasim and left his both legs fractured. They also beat the complainant and Wasim.

The police are conducting raids to arrest the suspects.

KIDNAPPED: A class nine student was kidnapped in Faisalabad from outside his school in Chak 117-JB, Dhanola, by four persons.

The Millat Town police said complainant Muhammad Ashfaq claimed that his son Hamid Ali was abducted by Fiaz Khan and his three accomplices.

The police were conducting raids to recover the abductee. Correspondent