RAWALPINDI:
The anti-Jang Group people attacking the group through different means
this time torched a delivery vehicle of the Daily Jang loaded with
Friday’s religious edition, after kidnapping and torturing the driver of
the vehicle, in the wee hours of Friday.
The driver
was shifted to the Holy Family Hospital after the “well-known captors”
threw the blindfolded man in critical condition somewhere at Rawat.The
Banni Police, however, have registered the case against unidentified
criminals under sections 436, 427, 341, 342, 147 and 149 PPC but haven’t
yet traced the “criminals” embroiled in the anti-Jang Group activities.
The
driver of the delivery vehicle, Mohammad Razzaq, an employee of the
Universal Distribution Network (UDN), said he was attached with the
delivery network of the Jang Group as a driver for the last two years,
adding that he left the Al-Rehman Building on his vehicle (registration
number AJKA-3103) loaded with thousands of copies of the Friday’s
edition of Jang for the Akhbar Market, Aabpara, at 2:10am.
He
said gunmen on two vehicles intercepted him and straightaway dragged
him out of his vehicle and pushed him into one of their cars. The driver
said that the gunmen thrashed him inhumanly, blindfolded him and tied
his hands on his back with a nylon rope. He said that they kept
torturing him during about one-hour-long drive and later threw him out
of their vehicle.
Razzaq said that as the light of the
dawn appeared, a passer-by untied him and on query, he told him he was
at the Chamber Road near Rawat. He, however, walked to Rawat and sought
help from a van driver and informed his brother from the van driver’s
mobile phone who reached there and started searching the delivery
vehicle, which was left at the place from where he was kidnapped. His
brother shifted him to the Holy Family Hospital as his condition was
worsening, the driver said.
In the meantime, an employee
of Geo TV living on the however, shifted him to Holy Family Hospital as
his condition was worsening, the driver said.In the meantime, an
employee of Geo TV living at Kuri Road (Sadiqabad) found the Jang’s
delivery van which was burnt along with Friday religious edition of the
newspaper. He informed chief security officer of the Jang Group about
location of the van at Kuri Road.
The management of the
Jang Group reprinted the burned copies and sent them for
distribution.Earlier, on May 30, unidentified assailants equipped with
lethal weapons, set the van carrying The News and Jang Friday edition to
transport to Islamabad, after creating fear among the people at
Committee Chowk. People who witnessed the last Friday attack confirmed
that the assailants were carrying lethal weapons and they acted as
professional fighters. “Their delivery was not like normal citizens or
agitators but they seemed as trained people,” the witnesses said.
Mohammad
Razzaq said that about 10/12 gunmen, carrying kalashnikovs, suddenly
jumped in front of the van and pointed their guns towards him, asking
him to come out of the van if he wants to save his life otherwise they
would burn him alive. He said that three were holding pistols and
remaining were carrying kalashnikovs.
