Okara | Pakistan

Police in Okara have registered a case against a rickshaw driver for playing a song by renowned Pakistani singer Naseebo Lal, under the Punjab Sound Systems (Regulation) Act, 2015.

The Punjab police on Wednesday said they arrested a suspect in Okara for the alleged murder of his wife last month. The first information report (FIR) of the incident was registered at Okara’s Renala Khurd Saddar Police Station at the complaint of the woman’s father under Section 302 (murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code on May 19. The FIR, a copy of which is available with Dawm.com, said the complainant came to know that his daughter was injured at her house, adding that he “found her murdered with her throat slit when he reached his son-in-law’s home with the latter lying unconscious on the ground in an injured state as well.” The FIR said the police were subsequently called to the spot. It requested a case and action against the son-in-law, accusing him of the murder with a blade. A statement from the Okara police spokesperson today said the suspect was arrested and the murder weapon recovered as well, adding that the husband had managed to injure himself as well. It called the murder the “result of a domest...

ISLAMABAD - At least four family members, including a father, two sons and a daughter were killed instantly when a speeding trailer truck collided with a motorbike near Punjab College on GT Road in Okara on Saturday morning.

Security sources have confirmed that six Indian drones of Israeli origin were shot down in different parts of Punjab, including Vehari, Pakpattan, and Okara.