Police recover abducted sisters

SIALKOT - The Begowala Police have recovered local labourer Muhammad Latifs two kidnapped daughters 13-year-old Madeeha and 10-year-olod Aleeza, besides arresting one the accused kidnappers Mushtaq Maseeh, after 40 days of their abduction from village Jhaariyaanwala-Sambrial here. Sialkot District Police Officer (DPO) Bilal Sadiq Kamiyana disclosed this while talking to the newsmen here Monday. Additional SP Sialkot Zahid Mehmood Gondal, DSP Sialkot Saddar Raja Sadaqat and senior member Sialkot District Peace Committee Zafar Malik were also present on the occasion. The DPO added that accused had kidnapped the girls, both sisters, for ransom as many as 40 days ago. He said that the police used scientific methods of investigation and raided at a house in Sialkot citys congested Pakka Garha-Bonkan locality, where the accused had been residing with the both abducted girls in a rented house. The police recovered the kidnapped sisters and arrested Mushtaq Maseeh who belongs to Green Town Lahore. The police have registered a case. Further investigation is underway in this regard. Meanwhile, the DPO added that the Bambaanwala Police also busted a well-organised inter-district gang of dacoits and arrested its five members identified as Amanat Ali, Tahir, Babar Ali, Allah Ditta and Riaz Shehzad. The Bambaanwala Police have also traced out a blind murder of Akbar Ali Cheema, who was brutally murdered a month ago by armed accused. The police have arrested Muhammad Hamid, Younas Maseeh and Maseeh, the DPO added. UK ENVOY VISITS SCCI TODAY: Francis Campbell, Director UK Trade and Investment in Pakistan and British Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi will visit Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) on Tuesday (today). He will discuss matters of mutual interest with Sialkot business community during an important meeting scheduled to be held at the SCCI. The British Envoy will also visit several leading industrial units in export-oriented Sialkot city. Speakers talk about human rights at brainstorming session: The Lyallpur Development Organisation (LDO) in collaboration with Youth Together for Human Rights Education and Youth for Human Rights International organised a Seminar on Human Rights for female college students of Govt College for Women, Madina Town. The seminar was held at the college premises and was participated 60 female students and teachers of the college. The purpose of the activity was to introduce concept of human rights and update students about the human rights abuses in Pakistan. On the occasion, Iftikhar Ahmad, Tahir Iqbal, Rabail Baber, Rashida Zafar (Principal College) and Shazia George addressed the participants and threw light on the situation of human rights in Pakistan. The speakers discussed UDHR, human rights guaranteed in the constitution of Pakistan, discriminatory laws and customary practices against women. At the end of the seminar, Rashida Zafar expressed a vote of thanks and emphasized on the need of such awareness sessions on regular basis for the building a culture of human rights in Pakistan. The participants for the improvement in the human rights situation demanded that all discriminatory laws and customary practices against women should be eliminated, and jurga system should be banned. He said that gender based discrimination in the curriculum must be removed and education should be free and compulsory for all citizen especially females.

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