Sobeea's sisters and brother combed the usual path to the school, but found no trace of their sister. Noreen and Robina, sisters of Sobeea, started searching the nearby fields.

In for a shock of their lives, the two young girls found the dead body of their sister in one of the fields, strangled to death after rape.

"I feel if I have lost everything. I curse the moment when I decided to move to Fatehjang," says Mohammad Banaras, Sobeea's father who moved to the city from his ancestral village two years back. A labourer, Banaras put up his family of eight in a one-room house in a slum in Fatehjang.

"Now I live in fear for the safety of my three other daughters." One of his daughters was to be married on October 24, but now that has been postponed indefinitely.

Police arrested Abdul Jabbar for rape and murder of Sobeea, saying he has confessed his crime. "The case was a challenge for us," says Chaudhry Riaz, Fatehjang police's Station House Officer. "We will soon produce him before courts."

However, the city of Fatehjang is still trying to grapple with the rape and murder of Soeeba, who was also learning Quran by heart.

"Such incidents make people insecure. First, the police probe would look at it as blind murder. You are worried about the unknown enemy, and then someone among you is blamed for such frightening tragedies," says Dr Khalid Mehmood, head of a local social organization. "The culprit according to police has been arrested, but people's trust in each other has been shattered."

The house of Muhammad Banaras became centre of the city's attention after the incident, as the family decided to move out.

For many, the incident also provided an opportunity for hogging some media coverage. District government officials and local politicians announced some cash for the Banaras family and vowed "exemplary punishment" for Abdul Jabbar.

"This is the first such incident in our city," says Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, Fatehjang's tehsil Nazim (mayor). "We will see that no one provides Jabbar any help."

Lawyers of the city also met and passed a resolution vowing free legal aid for the Banaras family.

Local leaders of political parties were also quick to visit the house of Banaras, condemned the incident, and announced some aid for the family.

A "probe team" of Khabrain, a mainstream Urdu newspaper, claimed it was welcomed by the Fatehjang people for "timely intervention".

In its October 29 issue, Khabrain carried the Sobeea's incident on the front page, but instead of the girl, it is the chief editor who is being congratulated in every third line for sending a team to the city and highlighting the case.

Unfortunately, the picture carried by Khabrain with a caption that "people of Fatehjang sloganeering" for its chief editor Zia Shahid was in fact a snap of students protesting against the government's decision against privatisation of public colleges!

It seems nobody is worried about the Banaras family, which has retreated back to its ancestral village.

"I have no enemy. I only want justice," says a weeping Muhammad Banaras. He is oblivious to the attention the case has got. He only knows one thing that his daughter would never come back. "I can't control my tears whenever I remember her".

JAND: Local transporters have started overcharging on Jand-Basal and Attock routes after recent price hike of petroleum products.

As per details, after recently revised petroleum rates, local transporters here have started overcharging (almost double) fare instead of officially notified rates being charged earlier from passengers traveling on various routes.

Now from Jand to Attock, transporters are charging Rs. 60 instead of Rs. 45 and from Basal to Attock Rs. 40 instead of Rs. 30.

A passenger, Azhar Mehmood besides many other local travelers told that transporters had increased fare at their own and the concerned authorities should take notice of it.

Secretary RTA, Arshad Ali Tawana when contacted said that he would himself visit different routes and stern action would be taken against those found involved in overcharging.

HAZRO: Eid Milad-un-Nabi will be celebrated here with religious zeal and fervour.

According to programme chalked out in this connection, religious ceremonies will be held at mosques and processions will be taken out to pay homage to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Competitions of Naat Khawani and conferences will also be held.

Streets and bazars of the city is being illuminated and decorated and brisk preparations are being finalized in this regard.

A large number of people will attend the religious ceremonies to exhibit their love for Islam and the Holy Prophet (PBUH).

KAMRA:  Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), General Tariq Majid on Wednesday  visited Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Kamra and inspected various facilities.

During the visit the was briefed about ongoing projects at PAC Kamra. After the briefing, CJCSC visited facilities available at Kamra including the F-7 and Mirage Aircraft overhauling, upgradation facilities, manufacturing assembling plant of Mushak/Super Mushak Aircraft and the facilities for production of JF-17  Thunder Aircraft, being undertaken by Pakistan in collaboration with China.

General Tariq Majid was highly impressed by the progress made by PAC Kamra, particularly in coproduction of JF-17 Thunder with China and remarked that PAC is an impressive outfit, making a huge contribution to national defence efforts. 

He hoped that the organisation will continue to work for optimizing our potential and defence capability.

Earlier on arrival at PAF Base Minhas, CJCSC was received by Air Marshal Khalid Choudhery, Chairman PAC and Air Commodore Sohail Aman, Base Commander PAF Base Minhas.