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BAGHDAD: Over 100 Pakistani pilgrims stranded at the Iraqi capital city’s airport appealed to the government for assistance on Thursday.

The pilgrims have been stranded at Baghdad airport since Tuesday after they missed their flight to Lahore as the tour head vanished with their passports.

The pilgrims received their passports three hours after the flight had departed.

Over 120 Pakistanis stranded at Baghdad airport

“We are facing difficulties as Shah Khurasan travel agent did not give us our tickets or passports on time,” the pilgrims said. “The elderly and children are being forced to sleep on floors in the cold and several have fallen sick,” the pilgrims added.

Appealing to the government for assistance, the pilgrims said they do not have money for food or to buy return tickets.

LAHORE:(Net News/ Media 92 News) Two alleged gang-rapists were arrested Friday night from the city’s Raiwind neighbourhood where they had subjected a minor girl to sexual assault, police confirmed.

According to police sources, the two predators had sprung up on the unsuspecting 14-year-old girl, reportedly suffering from mental illness, while she was going to a nearby shop.

The suspects, who, as per police, were labourers who worked at an under-construction house in the vicinity, were identified by the girl the next day when they returned to the site.

LAHORE:(Net News/ Media 92 News) The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered the police to enforce use of helmets by motorcyclists, as part of implementation of traffic laws across the province.

The court issued the order on a petition filed by a lawyer who contended that a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) had revealed that in Pakistan, 25.3 deaths per 100,000 occurred due to road accidents, which was much higher than international statistics.

The petitioner asked the court to direct the police to implement traffic laws across the province, including wearing of helmets by motorcyclists. He also asked that the government be directed to fix prices of helmets so that the profiteers could not extort money from the public.

Justice Ali Akbar Qureshi then directed the Punjab IGP to strictly enforce the use of helmets by motorcyclists without any discrimination and submit a compliance report within a week.

SARGODHA: Six students and a driver were killed on Tuesday morning when a passenger bus collided with their school van near Salim Interchange in Sargodha.

According to rescue sources, the van was en route to college when it collided with the passenger bus.

Six students and the driver were killed on the spot while three others injured in the collision.
The passenger bus was traveling from Khushab to Lahore when then it collided with the college van. Photo: Geo News

The passenger bus was traveling from Khushab to Lahore when it collided with the van, rescue sources added.

The deceased and injured were shifted to a nearby hospital.

LAHORE: A Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) worker was injured on Saturday as he fell from a bullet-proof vehicle he had climbed up on thinking it was carrying party president Shehbaz Sharif.

The injured worker has been shifted to a nearby hospital.

Several PML-N workers gathered outside the accountability court in Lahore and chanted slogans in favour of the party president in front of the accountability court where Shehbaz was produced earlier today.

On Shehbaz’s arrival, several workers climbed up on one of the armoured vehicles. There were two armoured vehicles — one which entered the court from the backdoor and the other from the front door.
Shehbaz Sharif arrives at accountability court in Lahore

A few PML-N workers managed to enter the accountability court despite being barred entry as they were sitting atop the armoured vehicle. It was during this that the PML-N worker fell from atop the vehicle and injured himself.

The leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday in the Ashiana Iqbal Housing Scheme case.

LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has completed initial preparations for the upcoming by-polls to take place on October 14, it emerged on Friday.

Candidates will contest for 11 National Assembly seats and 25 seats from provincial assemblies. Polls will be held for 12 seats in the Punjab assembly, nine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and two each in Sindh and Balochistan.

Sources in the electoral body said ballot papers for all constituencies in both the NA and provincial assemblies have been printed.

The armed forces will be deployed in the polling stations to ensure a smooth polling process, sources said.

Further, polling equipment has been sent to the returning officers. The ECP’s staff has also been trained and assigned duties, sources added.

Carrying mobiles to the polling stations will not be allowed on the election day, sources added. Moreover, CCTV cameras will be installed at sensitive polling stations.

LAHORE: Authorities have registered a first information report (FIR) over a four-day-old gang-rape of a minor girl here in the city’s Kot Lakhpat area, they said Friday night.

According to the FIR, which was filed in the Kot Lakhpat police station on the request of the survivor’s father, a resident of Chandraye Pind (village), five sexual predators allegedly gang-raped his 13-year-old daughter on September 3.

The teenage girl’s father noted that his daughter had gone out on the evening of September 3 when two suspected rapists kidnapped her at gunpoint and took her to a nearby house, where they gang-raped her.

The suspects, the petitioner said, are men from the same village and have threatened to make the video of the said incident viral if the survivor’s father fails to pay extortion money worth Rs50,000.

The girl, on the other hand, has to undergo a medical test, police said.

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Two women accused of stealing clothes from a shop in Lahore were violently thrashed by the shop owners, it emerged on Thursday.
Leaked footage of the incident, which occurred in a bazaar near Jallo Mor on G.T. Road on Wednesday, was obtained by .media92news
The disturbing footage shows a number of men taking turns to beat up the two women using a thick cane. They also repeatedly slap, kick and hit the women with shoes.
The violence continues despite desperate cries of pain from the pair. In one part of the leaked footage, the women are seen being beaten up, sitting on the floor inside a shuttered shop.
The victims were accused of attempting to steal a bundle of clothes from a shop in the market.
The man who inflicted the violence on the women is reportedly associated with the Pakistan Kabaddi Federation.
Instead of approaching the police over the alleged theft, the shop owners resorted to thrashing the women and subsequently let them go.
After the footage of the violence was leaked, police made a move to act against the suspects. However, the shop owners are currently absconding and their houses and shop were to be locked, sub-inspector
Mukhtar .

LAHORE: Rafique Rajwana resigned from his post as governor of Punjab on Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters, Rajwana said he would return to his profession of being a lawyer after tendering his resignation.

Rajwana added that a new government had been formed and it should appoint the new governor of the province. He stressed that his decision was made after consultation with the party [PML-N] leadership.

Rajwana was appointed as the 36th governor of Punjab in 2015, replacing Chaudhry Sarwar. It is expected that Sarwar who is the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s nominee would be appointed governor of the province.

Last month, Muhammad Zubair who was also affiliated with the PML-N stepped down from the post of Sindh governor.

LAHORE: Armed suspects have robbed a civilian’s bike from ‘N’ Block of the city’s Samanabad area, Geo News reported Tuesday night, citing a copy of the closed-circuit television (CCTV) video it obtained.

The video shows two armed suspects holding a man at gunpoint, after giving him a chase, and beating him before snatching and leaving with his bike.

The victim — identified as Imtiaz — said he was manhandled and would file a first information report against the incident.