Day: July 26, 2012

CHINIOT: On the orders of Additional District and Sessions Judge Ziaul Qamar, the Lalian police have booked its 11 officials, including Umar Draz, Muzammal Hayat, Mubashar, Raza, Qamar Suleman, for ransacking the house of Zehran Bibi without any legal permission and tearing off her clothes. Sources, however, said that none of the eleven cops were arrested.

Land dispute claims two lives: A man and his mother were killed the other day over a property dispute in Mauza Hid on Chiniot-Aminpur Road, some 12-km from here.

Identified as Ijaz Ahmad and Parveen, the victims were killed by one Sheikh Abdul Haq Puri, Abdul Sattar Haral and their four unidentified armed accomplices, when they tried to stop them from destroying the crop sown in the one-and-a-half acre agriculture land with the help a tractor.

Police officials said that although the matter was pending before the court, Abdul Haq tried to forcibly occupy the land and gunned down Ijaz Ahmad and crushed his mother under the tractor in the course of action, and fled. Police have registered a case and are investigating.

Two bikes lifted: Two motorcycles were stolen from the district courts premises here the other day. Sources informed that Mohammad Arshad, a resident of Ameer Colony parked his bike 3555-OKK outside district courts. However, someone finding a chance took away the bike.
The second bike was also lifted from the court premises.
The police have registered separate cases.

The Nation

SUKKUR: A jirga declared Gulzar Ahmed Shaikh a ‘karo’ for marrying his sister-in-law, Kazbano Shaikh, in Raheem Bux Khoso village. As punishment he was ordered to hand over two girls from his family in marriage, pay a fine of Rs200,000 and leave the village on Wednesday.

Gulzar refused to accept the judgement which is why he was threatened with dire consequences. According to sources, Kazbano’s relatives organised the jirga which was headed by a village elder, Fateh Mohammad Shaikh, and was attended by members of both families.

The other side of the story

Gulzar married Kazbano, his brother Rasool Bux Shaikh’s widow, six months after Rasool’s death. Kazbano’s family was not happy with this marriage and wanted Gulzar to divorce her immediately, on the grounds that he had ‘forced’ her into marrying him. He refused. While talking to the media, Gulzar insisted that he did not force Kazbano to marry him. “I married her to support her seven children,” he said. “We were living happily but then my father-in-law came and took my wife away. I went to his house to get her but they sent me away.” According to Gulzar, he tried to convince his father-in-law, Abdul Karim Shaikh, that he had not forced Kazbano to marry him but Abdul refused to listen. Instead, he asked Gulzar to pay Rs300,000 and give two girls in exchange for marriage.

While talking to The Express Tribune, Gulzar said that after he spoke to the media, the police rescued his wife from her father’s house and took her to court.

The police intervene

According to head constable Suhrab Ali, Kazbano was produced in the court of the second civil judge, Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim. He said that in her statement Kazbano did not say anything against anybody but asked the court to let her go with her brothers, Khadim Shaikh and Allah Wadhayo Shaikh. The court allowed her to go with her brothers after seeking required surety.

The Express Tribune

By: Rana Yasif

LAHORE: A woman was shot dead on July 20 by her brother, a police constable, for not withdrawing a case registered against him in April.

Tariq Shah, their elder brother of the deceased, said Najma, 35, part of the Sharqpur Inter College for Girls’ cricket team, used to wear pants and ride a motorcycle. He said he and his brothers did not approve of it. He said they had warned her several times but she did not stop.

Police said on April 23, Sajid and Wajid, beat Najma with clubs. She was rescued by some neighbours. She filed a case against her brothers and an uncle, Naseer Shah, under Sections 354 (assault)/452 (House-trespass for intentional assault) and 379 (theft) with Shahdara police.

Her father, Sarwar Shah, complainant in the FIR, said that her brothers had wanted her to withdraw the case, but she had refused. Sajid Shah has yet to be arrested.The investigation officer said the suspects were on bail till July 28. He said they were not cooperating in the investigation. He said he will write to the court about this and their bails will be cancelled.

The Express Tribune

By: Inamullah Khattak

RAWALPINDI: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Rawalpindi on Wednesday announced result of the annual Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination and the top three positions were clinched by girls.

The result was announced during a ceremony with provincial Minister for Planning and Development Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor as chief guest. It was attended by officials of the Pindi board, students, parents and academicians.

However, Wajeeha Khan was the center of attention for all who had not only clinched top position in Rawalpindi board but also got the highest marks in all Punjab boards by scoring 1022 marks in matriculation exam.

Azza Azam scored 1016 marks followed by Hafiza Hira Amjad who secured 1014 marks thus clinching second and third position, respectively while Mohammad Idrees managed to get first position among boys by getting 1011 marks.

Out of the total 111,581 students who appeared in the annual examination, 68,725 passed it and the ratio of successful candidates remained around 62 per cent – the highest in the last eight years.

Interestingly, the top position holders all represented private schools in the city while students representing government schools showed abysmal results with majority of the failures belonging to the state-run educational institutions.

On the occasion, the provincial minister said that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif would arrange a guard of honour for the students achieving outstanding positions soon while he offered his chair to the topper, Wajeeha Khan, in recognition of her brilliant success.

He added that Punjab government was doing its best to promote education and facilitate students to get enrolled in schools under Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) that provides free of cost education to the poor.

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