April 23, 2002	Tuesday	Safar 9, 1423

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GUJRANWALA, April 22: City tehsil council employees went on strike in protest against manhandling of a storekeeper by the city tehsil Naib Nazim and his men and staged a sit-in outside the municipal complex here on Monday.

Reports said storekeeper Abdul Majid removed the computer from the office of Naib Nazim Ehsanullah Chaudhry in his absence on the directive of Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad. When the Naib Nazim reached his office and found the computer missing, he reportedly abused the storekeeper, while his men beat him up and threatened him with dire consequences.

Sabzi Mandi police have registered a case against the city tehsil Naib Nazim and his men on the report of the storekeeper.

It is stated that a political tussle between city tehsil Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad and Naib Nazim Ehsanullah Chaudhry had been going on for the last two months, and a police case against the Naib Nazim was the result of the same tussle.

Meanwhile, city tehsil council employees have demanded that the Naib Nazim and his men should be arrested otherwise their strike will continue.

AJK PRESIDENT: Azad Kashmir president Sardar Muhammad Anwar has supported the government economics policies saying President Pervez Musharraf has put the country on the road to progress and prosperity.

Speaking at the local chamber of commerce and industry on Monday, he said the plunderers who looted the national wealth should be taken to task and the accountability process against them be accelerated.

He said the Kashmiris would cast their vote in favour of Gen Musharraf in the referendum.

STRIKE: The pen-down strike by the employees of Punjab education boards in protest against non-payment of their salaries according to new pay scales continued on the seventh consecutive day on Monday.

The Gujranwala BISE Employees Welfare Association at a meeting held under the presidentship of association president Bashir Ahmad Cheema said the Punjab government had failed to initiate an action against the Punjab BISE Chairmen Committee for not disbursing their salaries according to new pay scales.

The meeting pledged that the strike would continue till the acceptance of their demand.