TOBA TEK SINGH: The principal of a private school in Gojra was attacked and injured by the shopkeepers who were harassing the female students of his school.
In his FIR, registered by Gojra City police, Muhammad Saeed, the principal of Al Barkat Girls High School, Painsara Road, said the schoolgirls had complained to him that when they passed by the aluminum workshop on way to school, its owner, Nadeem, and five other shopkeepers did not catcall at them but they also physically harassed them.
When the principal went to the workshop to talk to its owner and other shopkeepers, they exchanged harsh words with him and attacked him with steel rods. The attack left him critically wounded. Police arrested Nadeem and one of his accomplices.
On the other hand, the relatives of Nadeem told the media that the school principal and his accomplices had attacked shopkeepers when they restrained him from hanging school panaflexes and signboards on poles adjacent to their shop. At this, a scuffle took place at the workshop between shopkeepers and the principal and his men.
A video had gone viral on social media, showing the principal being beaten and injured by the shopkeepers.
Published in Dawn, November 2nd, 2025.
