BAHAWALPUR, Dec 14: There are 19,000 applications pending with the Baitul Maal scrutiny committee, Dawn has learnt.
Sources said as a result of the committee’s inability to process the applications, an amount of Rs10 million, allocated for distribution among the deserving had remained unutilized last year. None of the deserving would get assistance on the occasion of Eidul Fitr either.
PHD: Mrs Farzana Wajid Khan has been awarded a PhD degree in chemistry following the acceptance of her thesis Protonation reaction of an-ion radicals of some dinitroaromatics by Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Mrs Khan is a lecturer in a Lodhran college.
RELEASED: A batch of 131 prisoners, held for petty crimes, was released from Central Jail, Bahawalpur, on Thursday. Their bail applications were accepted by an additional district and sessions judge and the Lodhran district and sessions judge. Cases of 40 more inmates are yet to be decided by the DSJ.
AL-QUDS DAY: Al-Quds day was observed here under the auspices of the Pak-Afghan Defence Council.