Day: May 30, 2009

KARACHI: Shiri Devi, 25, wife of Shimla, has registered a case against her in-laws, alleging that they tried to chop off her ear over a domestic dispute. The incident took place on Thursday night at the house of Devi’s in-laws, located at Jogi Mor, Hindu Para within the limits of Shah Latif police station.

Station Investigation Officer (SIO) Mukhtar Thario said that Devi started running a sweet shop in her house and this led to objections from her in-laws, who frequently created hurdles for her. On the day of the incident, they started beating her and during this her ear was injured severely. “Devi’s ear was not chopped rather it seems that it got hurt badly while they were beating her. It could have been due to the ear hitting an iron gate or the earring getting stuck somewhere, resulting in the soft flesh being ripped,” the officer said.

However, he said that the police are waiting for the medical report to make a decision whether the relatives injured the ear or it happened accidently. The woman was taken to hospital from where she was shifted to her home after receiving medical treatment. The officer added that the nominated culprits in the case have fled after a case was registered against them while an investigation has been initiated to probe the case.
Source: Daily Times
Date:5/30/2009

MIANWALI: Panic gripped Isakhel town after two boys in the garb of PTCL officials snapped and filmed various portions of government degree colleges for boys and girls, respectively, on Thursday.

Two youngsters on a silver colour car reached Govt Degree College for Boys at around 2:30pm. Speaking in a Pushto dialect, they inquired about the principal from the security guard.

They were taken to the principal’s office where they introduced themselves as PTCL officials conducting a survey to install high-speed internet and multimedia services in colleges.

One of the visitors engaged the principal in conversation about the area already provided with internet facility while the other guy went out and took snaps and video shots of every nook and corner of the college. Later, they went to the girls’ college and repeated the same exercise.

In the meantime, the principal informed his staff about the PTCL survey. When they raised certain doubts, the principal decided to confirm the activity from local PTCL office.

The principal was shocked to hear from the PTCL officials that their department had not launched any such survey.

The principal informed the colleges district officer who advised him to contact the police in view of prevailing security situation.

It is worth mentioning here that nowadays exams are in progress in these colleges besides a large number of aspirants for their recruitment as educators visit these premises daily. Isakhel is located on the frontier of NWFP and Punjab and presence of Taliban in the surrounding areas is a constant threat to the local population.

Isakhel SHO Ahmed Abbas Khan said that they had increased the security around colleges and schools after the principal had informed them about the doubtful activity besides instructing the institutions’ heads to keep a check on suspects entering the premises.

He also urged the heads of educational institutions to allow visitors only after verifying their national identity cards and recording their brief bio-data in a register.
Source: Dawn
Date:5/30/2009