June 11, 2002	Tuesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 29, 1423

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GUJRANWALA, June 10: The food department has enhanced the wheat procurement target from 250,000 to 302,000 metric tons.

This was stated by food department deputy director Abdul Qayyum Lashari on Monday.

Talking to newsmen, he said that around 275,000 metric tons of wheat had been purchased so far.

He said that 155,000 metric tons had been purchased from Gujranwala, 90,000 from Sialkot and Narowal and 27,899 from Gujrat and Mandi Bahauddin districts.

He said that Pasco was procuring wheat from Hafizabad.

CATTLE VACCINATION: The livestock department will launch a campaign from June 15 to vaccinate cattle before monsoon.

The campaign would continue till September this year, district livestock officer Dr Ghulam Muhammad Gull told newsmen on Monday.

He said that around 500,000 cattle would be vaccinated at the 10 centres at Sodara, Wazirabad, Head Khanki, Rasul Nagar, Wahando, Kotli Nawab, Kamoki and Nausheran Virkan.

SHOT DEAD: A landlord was killed by his rivals over a land dispute in Bahu Chak village on Monday.

Akbar Ali was siting at his outhouse when Muhammad Aslam reached there accompanied with his accomplices. They opened fire, killing him on the spot.

Police registered the case against the accused who were at large.