Musharraf due in Bahawalpur today

Published April 24, 2002

BAHAWALPUR, April 23: President Pervez Musharraf will distribute ownership deeds among over 3,000 landless Cholistanis during his visit here on Wednesday.

The president will also meet various delegations of women councillors, ulema, students and the local chamber of commerce and industry. He will also address union council Nazimeen, Naib Nazimeen and councillors at the Bahawalpur Stadium.

Meanwhile, thousands of public vehicles were impounded by the traffic police of Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar and Rahimyar Khan on Tuesday to provide transport facilities to Nazimeen and councillors to attend the meeting of the president.

BAR: The local lawyers’ community is divided over the Pakistan Bar Council’s call to boycott the courts on April 25 against the referendum.

District bar chief Harun Bashir backs the boycott whereas high court bar’s outgoing president Sardar Muhammad Hussain, who had invited the Punjab governor to address bar on April 13 is in favour of referendum.

The new president-elect Sheikh Hakim Ali is too supporting the referendum and the issue will be discussed by bar’s outgoing executive council.

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