Two rival groups signs truce in Police Lines Qila Gujjar Sing

Lahore : CCPO Capt. (r) Muhammad Amin vains said that police have ended enmity between Nubha and Umar Jamalay groups in a successful move initiated by him.Thus Lahore police have resolved more than 60-year-old enmity between two families that had taken lives of 125 people,he added.

He was addressing a special ceremony arranged in connection with reconciliation between two rival groups at the Police Lines Qila Gujjar Singh .The CCPO said that the most beautiful act in the eyes of Allah and His Prophet (PBUH) is to bring about reconciliation between two enraged persons or groups.

The CCPO further said that a special cell had been established to resolve the old enmities and it was compiling the complete record of the cases related to old enmities in the provincial metropolis.

DIG (Operations) Haider Ashraf, SSP (investigation) Rana Ayaz Saleem, SP CIA Omar Virk, SSP (Discipline) Sohail Sukhera, and all divisional SPs were also present on this occasion.

Representatives from both the parties also spoke on this occasion and they expressed their sadness and regret for the unfortunate killings.They begged for forgiveness from each other’s side and promised to stop causing any more problems and let peace prevail.

SP CIA Muhammad Omar Virk said that Muhammad Din of Umar family was killed and three persons namely Bashir, Hassan and Chanun of Nubha family were sentenced to death.
However, the then President of Pakistan Ayub Khan turned their death penalty into life imprisonment.

He said that the three came out of the jail after completing life imprisonment and killed Agha Safdar of Umar family to uphold their supremacy in their area.
In 1999, four persons were gunned down outside Anti Terrorism Court Mustafabad Lahore, following the said rivalry.

During the ceremony, a group of journalists boycotted the event against the behaviour of the management who asked them to sit on back seats and give a chance to editors and anchor persons to sit in front row. Later CCPO himself apology to them and said that he never thought to humiliate any journalist and take back the journalists in the function.