National
February 3, 2021
MULTAN: The Lahore High Court Multan Bench reprimanded the Dera Ghazi Khan District Police Officer for not recovering a boy who had gone missing two years ago. LHC Multan Bench Justice Farooq Haider observed: Institutions are defamed due to such illegal activities, court said, ordering the DPO to produce the missing boy. Earlier, petitioner Haq Nawaz s lawyer Syed Athar Shah Bukhari said his client s 18-year-old son Muhammad Abrar was picked up by the police from Basti Makool Kalan (Taunsa Sharif) two years ago. His father is a retired headmaster. He searched for his son everywhere, but no institution is ready to admit that he is in its custody, he informed the court. He said his father had heard that he was arrested on the charge of uploading objectionable material on social media. However, neither police nor any agency was taking responsibility for it, the petitioner said.
The PTI is flashing Buzdar’s meeting with the PML-N MPAs as a success with regard to the upcoming Senate election. DawnNewsTv/File
LAHORE: The number of disgruntled MPAs’ within the ranks of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in Punjab seems to be building up and may hit the ruling party in the upcoming Senate elections.
While Chief Minister Usman Buzdar is holding meetings with different PML-N MPAs to muster up support for the Senate election, new alignments within the PTI parliamentarians are emerging to pressurise the government for allocation of development works for their respective constituencies and due share in power.