Court acquits LPP leader


TOBA TEK SINGH - Civil Judge-cum- Judicial Magistrate Mian Muhammad Shahid acquitted Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) District Secretary Tariq Mahmood in a case registered against him under Section 16 of MPO here on Tuesday.
Advocate Najamus Saqib who appeared for the LPP leader took the plea before the honourable court that the case was registered to restrain him from raising voice against excesses with poor people of the villages.
PPP FOUNDER MEMBER DIES IN ROAD MISHAP: PPP founding member Abdul Salam died in a road accident near Dullam on Toba-Jhang Road here the other day.
Scores of people including former district nazim Ch Muhammad Ashfaq, PTI leader Ghiasuddin Janbaz and Amer Jabbar Chaudhry attended his funeral here on Tuesday. The deceased was the brother a PTCL employee Shahid Hameed. Meanwhile, mother of ex-UC Naib Nazim Zubair Sharif died after protracted illness here on Tuesday.

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