The News – Motorway rape case: Prime suspect continues to evade arrest 10 days after incident

Even after 10 days, the prime suspect of the Lahore motorway incident, Abid Ali, remains at large.

Lahore – Panjab – Pakistan, 19 September 2020. Police conducted search operations in the different areas of Sheikhupura, Kasur, and Nankana Sahib after receiving information and evidence related to the presence of the accused in the aforementioned areas.

However, law enforcement agencies have not yet been able to apprehend Abid. On the other hand, the scope of the investigation for the prime accused has been extended to other provinces where Punjab Police is in touch with the police forces of other provinces to tighten the search operation.

To ensure the suspect does not evade arrest, the entry and exit routes of Punjab have been blocked.

Nankana Sahib police spokesperson said that they raided the house of Abid’s sister-in-law in the city last night after receiving a tip-off about his presence in the area. However, the police were not able to arrest him.

Abid may change appearance to fool authorities, say police

Police also suspect that the accused may change his appearance in order to dodge police, therefore, various pictures of Abid in disguises have been shared.

These images have been sent out via WhatsApp and plastered across police stations so that if anyone spots someone bearing resemblance to any of the photos, they may easily inform authorities.

Among the four photos distributed, one shows Abid with his original face and hairstyle, a second one with a bald head and moustache, another where he is clean-shaved with a bald head, and the last with a French beard.

In all four, his primary features have not been altered.

To date, authorities have taken four men into custody, of whom one has confessed to involvement in the horrific crime.

On 09 September, two men allegedly raped a woman stranded with her children on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway before robbing her of money and other valuables.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/717130-motorway-rape-case-prime-suspect-still-at-large-10-days-after-incident

Sikh24.com – Muslim Family Respectfully Gives 100 Year Old Guru Granth Sahib Saroops to Historical Gurdwara in Pakistan

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Lahore – Panjab – Pakistan, 15 September 2020. A Muslim family which was taking care of two around 100-year-old holy saroops of Guru Granth Sahib in the Gujrat city of Pakistan, today respectfully handed these saroops to the management of the historic Gurdwara Babe Di Ber at Sialkot.

Sikh24 learned that as many as three generations of the family have taken care of these saroops. After they brought these saroops to the gurdwara, a ceremony was organized on the occasion. The saroops were accorded with a warm and zealous welcome as per Sikh traditions.

While speaking on the occasion, a Muslim leader said, “Irrespective of policies of Pakistan’s governments, the people of this country stand with the Sikh community. We will ensure that the interests of the Sikh community will be safe”.

The family and all the Muslim dignitaries were felicitated with ‘siropas’ (robe of honour) and kirpan (sword) by the Sikh leaders of this area. Parkash (installation) of the saroops was also done and gurbani was recited from them during the ceremony attended by local Sikh sangat.

Though Pakistan is considered as a vulnerable country for minority communities such as Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians, with the occurrence of their persecution but this kind of gesture from the Muslims keeps their morale high and creates a sense of security.

The speaker said that most of the Muslims want this country to be safe for minorities, which is needed to improve its reputation on an international level.

Ever since Imran Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) formed government here, the minorities are feeling safe comparatively as this government has been taking a special interest in restoring shrines related to Sikhs and Hindus.

The opening of Kartarpur Sahib corridor, a long pending demand of the Sikh community, was also one of the parts of the policy adopted by this government for safeguarding the minorities.

Besides the corridor that provides the Sikhs living in the Indian sub-continent a visa-free access to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur Sahib, the last resting place of Sikh religion’s founder Guru Nanak Sahib, this government has restored some other historic gurdwaras as well, including Gurdwara Choa Sahib.

Besides, the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Sahib was celebrated on a large scale in November last year.

Next year, the centenary of Saka Nankana Sahib (massacre of Nankana Sahib) is also being observed on a large scale and for which preparations have started. The Pakistan government has offered to issue as many as 10000 visas to the Sikhs for this event.

Muslim Family Respectfully Gives 100 Year Old Guru Granth Sahib Saroops to Historical Gurdwara in Pakistan

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Dawn – Sikh girl goes missing from house in Hassanabdal

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Taxila – Panjab – Pakistan, 20 September 2020. A young Sikh woman of Hassanabdal has allegedly run away with a Muslim man and may have married him after converting to Islam, sources said on Saturday.

The 22-year-old daughter of a Sikh man who runs a shop in Hassanabdal stepped out of her house on the pretext of taking the trash outside the other day, but never returned.

DSP Raja Fayyaz-ul-Hassan, the sub-divisional police officer, said a case had been registered by Hassanabdal police against an “unknown abductor” on the complaint of the girl’s father under Section 365-B of the Pakistan Penal Code, for kidnapping, abducting or inducing a woman to marry, and launched a hunt for the missing girl.

The day after she went missing she reportedly sent a WhatsApp message to her father telling him that she had contracted a marriage of her own will and converted to Islam, said DSP Hassan.

He said several police teams were looking for the girl so that she could be produced before a court of law and her statement recorded.

Case registered against ‘unknown abductor’

When contacted, General Secretary of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee Sardar Ameer Singh confirmed that the girl had gone missing from her father’s house located near the Gurdwara Punja Sahib in Hassanabdal.

Mr Singh said that her father and uncle met federal Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri on Friday, in the presence of Punjab’s Minister for Minority Affairs Ijaz Alam Augustine and chairman of the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Dr Aamir Ahmad, and apprised him of disappearance of the girl.

He said the federal and provincial ministers had assured the girl’s father and uncle that she would be recovered soon.

In response to a question, Mr Singh said: “At the moment, it is premature to confirm that the girl has converted to another religion. This can only be confirmed once the girl is found and her statement is recorded.”

He said the entire Sikh community was supporting the aggrieved family.

In response to another question, Mr Singh said his organisation was in contact with the district police officer of Attock for the latest updates on the situation.

He termed some reports run by the Indian media on the matter “baseless and unwanted”.

He pointed out that as per the FIR she had left her house on her own and the whole nation could not be blamed for an individual’s act.

Sub-Inspector Tahir Iqbal, the spokesman for district police, said a case was registered against an “unknown abductor” immediately after the girl’s father had filed a complaint. So there was no delay in the registration of the case.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1580633/sikh-girl-goes-missing-from-house-in-hassanabdal

Scroll.in – Journalist Rajeev Sharma’s arrest ‘high-handed, mind-boggling’, says Press Club of India

Sharma has been accused of passing on classified military information from India to Chinese intelligence.

New Delhi – India, 20 September 2020. The Press Club of India on Saturday criticised the Delhi Police for arresting journalist Rajeev Sharma in an Official Secrets Act case for allegedly passing on information about the Indian Army’s deployment and the country’s border strategy to Chinese intelligence.

It said that the police action against Sharma was “high-handed” and “mind-boggling”.

The club called out the Delhi Police for its “dubious” record. “We are astounded to hear of the arrest of Rajeev Sharma, a well-known independent journalist of long standing and a member of the Press Club of India,” it said in a statement.

“This is on account of the dubious track record of the Special Branch. More generally also, the record of Delhi Police is hardly a shining one.”

The Press Club added that the police had taken action against Sharma based on “questionable considerations”.

“On the basis of the statement of the police released to the media, we have no hesitation in saying that the police action is high-handed, and may be inspired by obscure or questionable considerations,’ it said.

The club added: “Rajeev Sharma’s six-day police remand, after his arrest on 14 September under the Official Secrets Act, evidently for relaying defence-related information to China, also appears mind-boggling.

Sharma wrote on strategic affairs and may well have accessed routinely over-classified information on the Internet that is in the public domain.”

Sharma, a freelance journalist, was arrested on Monday by the Special Cell of the Delhi police. They alleged that he was found to be in possession of defence-related classified documents.

He was produced before a court on Tuesday and sent to six-day police custody.

The police alleged that Sharma was being paid huge amounts of money by a Chinese woman and her Nepalese associate for the classified information. The two women have also been arrested.

The Press Club also gave examples of other journalists who had been falsely implicated in cases based on “trumped-up” charges.

The group also criticised the Delhi Police for arresting students and activists under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, in cases related to the large-scale communal violence that took place in the Capital in February.

“Of late, Delhi Police, including its Special Branch, have made preposterous arrests under the lawless law called UAPA in which the word of the government is enough to keep an innocent person behind bars for long periods,” it said.

“These have happened in matters relating to anti-CAA protests and the carefully designed communal killings in the so-called February 2020 riots in northeast Delhi.”

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