Rawat police on Friday raided a sheesha bar and arrested 15 people for smoking hookah. Although hookah is part of the Punjabi traditional lifestyle, there is a ban to run sheesha bars where youth gather to smoke and listen to music and watch movies. Police seized sound system, hookahs and packets of flavoured tobacco from the premises. The SHO of Rawat police station said that he along with his team raided the sheesha centrein a private housing society and arrested 15 accused who were smoking sheesha when police carried out the raid. Police recovered seven hookahs , 11 hookah flavours and related items and loudspeakers from the possession of the suspect The arrested persons include Mohammad Osama, Zaheer Ahmed, Umair Sardar, Anwarzada, Malik Fahad, Farhan Ijaz, Nosherwan, Mohammad Afaq, Gul Mohammad, Mohammad Hamza, Qamar Nawaz, Wali Mohammad, Shah Nawaz, Mohammad Amir and Usman Ghani. A case has been registered against him.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 5th, 2020.
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