Posts Tagged ‘Sialkot’

PPP will face political acrobats: Firdous

Federal Minister for Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said here on Sunday that Pakistan People’s Party had gathered all political parties to form a coalition government. While addressing a public meeting in Sialkot, she said PPP had faced political jugglers in the past and ready to face in future. She termed high oil prices as well as floods as the cause of dearness in the country saying …

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Five ‘drug peddlers’ die as car capsizes

SAMBRIAL – Five people including three women were killed while two others critically injured when their car allegedly carrying a huge cache of charas ran into a passenger van here.
The car with five people on board was on its way to Sialkot when it rammed into the Sialkot-bound van coming from Gujranwala at Haji Pura Chowk.
The car ran off the road and turned-turtle killing all the five …

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Five including 3 women killed in Wazirabad road accident

At least five people including three women were killed and two others injured in a collision between a passenger van and car here in Wazirabad late Friday night.
According to police, a Sialkot bound car with five persons on board ran into a passenger van coming from Gujranwala at Hajipura Chowk of Wazirabad.
As a result of accident all the five car riders including three women were killed on the …

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Lightning strikes plane

LAHORE – PIA Sialkot-bound flight PK-396 was diverted to Lahore after being hit by lightning on early Saturday morning, sources in the airlines said.
However, all the 73 passengers on board remained safe. Sources said the lightning caused tripping in the navigational system of the aircraft, but the system was revived shortly after the failure and the pilot succeeded to land the plane at Allama …

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Pilot averts tragedy as lightening hits PIA plane

The Pakistan International Airline (PIA) airplanes are unsafe, even in the skies. A Sialkot-bound flight of the airline was hit by thunder, but fortunately, landed safely at Lahore airport.
Sources said PK396 flight was hit by lightening near Lahore an hour after taking off from Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport for Sialkot early Saturday. They said the thunder could not cause a …

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Businessmen asked to explore venues for joint ventures

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SIALKOT – Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan Hiroshi Oe has said that there is existed vast scope for the establishment of joint venture and collaboration between the business communities of Japan and Sialkot and both the sides could capitalise on the potential in business sector.
Addressing the members of Sialkot Chamber…

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LHC grants bail to former SHO, policemen in Sialkot lynching case

LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday granted bail to former SHO Sadar police station Sialkot, Rana Muhammad Ilyas and six other policemen suspending their three-year sentence awarded by an anti-terrorism court in Sialkot lynching case. The bench comprising Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry and Justice Shahid Hameed Dar ordered to [...]

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Sialkot lynching: LHC suspends sentence awarded to eight policemen

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The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday suspended the sentences awarded to eight policemen, including former SHO Rana Ilyas, in the Sialkot lynching case.
The Gujranwala Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) had found 10 policemen, including former DPO Waqar Chohan, guilty in the case.
All the policemen involved in the incident were…

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LHC suspends sentence of ex-DPO

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LAHORE – The Lahore High Court Monday suspended the sentence awarded by an anti-terrorism court to former Sialkot DPO Waqar Chohan in the Sialkot lynching case and granted him bail against the surety of Rs100, 000.
An LHC division bench, headed by Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, heard both the…

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Power cuts: protests outbreak in Punjab

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Long hours of announced and unannounced power load shedding have piled up anguish people who took onto streets in various cities of Punjab.
Violent protests were erupted in Gujaranwala, Gujrat, Sialkot, Lahore, Multan, Layyah and other cities and towns of the province, where provoked protesters ransacked public and private property.<br…

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Seven sentenced to death for Sialkot lynching

A local anti-terrorism court convicted 22 people, nine policemen among them, in a case relating to the lynching of two brothers in Sialkot.

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7 get death sentence; DPO?jailed for 3 years

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GUJRANWALA – An anti-terrorism court Tuesday announced its verdict on Sialkot lynching case and awarded four times capital punishment to seven accused and life imprisonment to six others besides three years imprisonment to each cop including former Sialkot DPO Waqar Ahmad Chohan.
The court comprising of presiding officer, Ch Mushtaq…

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Sialkot lynching case verdict announced

The court has given the death sentence to seven of the accused in the case, six others were given life in prison, five were acquitted.

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Verdict reserved in Sialkot lynching case

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An anti-terrorism court (ATC) has reserved its verdict on Tuesday in the case pertaining to the public lynching and murder of two brothers a year ago in Sialkot, report said. The incident took place in Sialkot on 15 August 2010 when two brothers, Muneeb and Mughees were publicly lynched and…

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Victim family stages protest over mysterious death of jail inmate in Sialkot

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Large numbers of angry relatives on Thursday staged protest over mysterious death of an inmate in District Jail Sialkot.
An accused Naseer Ahmad was confined in Sialkot’s prison for the last two months in a theft case and on Wednesday he died there mysteriously while the jail administration failed to…

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Trader shot dead as robbers hit Sialkot

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SIALKOT – There was no letup in rising dacoity, robbery and theft incidents in Sialkot district, as the criminals remained on the rampage and shot dead a trader on resistance during dacoity here on Saturday, besides looting gold ornaments, two cars, six motorcycles and other valuables in several strikes in…

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Pangolin electrocuted

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SIALKOT – A pangolin was electrocuted after receiving a severe electrical shock in a bid to enter the fields of a local farmer in village Pindiyaan near Sialkot.
The farmer had left the electrical shocks in the iron wires affixed around his paddy fields in a bid to halt…

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