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MULTAN, July 1: Irrigation authorities on Monday released water in the channels that irrigate agricultural lands of Peerowal farms.
Water supply to Peerowal channels had been suspended since June 18 last when a police contingent besieged the entire area of chaks 86, 75, 87, 83, 85, 82 and 81 (10-Rs) apparently in order to destroy the cotton sown by tenants on an area of 7,000 acres.
The police ended the siege of Peerowal farms on June 26 when the Lahore High Court granted a stay to the tenants against any government action. But the water to the channels had not been released at a time when the standing crop needed first water to survive in the hot weather.
When the tenants vowed to open water outlets at their own, a police contingent again took positions at the sources of all the Peerowal water channels on Saturday last. However, on Monday the authorities let the water flow in the fields.
VACANT POSTS: The district government has announced that 873 vacant posts of teachers will be filled soon.
Presiding over a meeting of the Education Department on Saturday, district Nazim Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the district government was inviting applications from the potential candidates to make recruitments against the vacant posts of teachers. He said the final date of submission of applications would be July 20.
The Nazim vowed that merit would be followed while selecting candidates, but preference would be given to the qualified local candidates.
He directed the EDO (Education) to launch a massive publicity campaign about the recruitment so that everyone could be informed about the closing date of filing applications. For this, he suggested that handbills and pamphlets should be distributed in each and every union council of the district.
In a separate order, the Nazim directed all the government officials not to do correspondence directly with the provincial government. Instead, they should en route each and every letter through the office of the district Nazim.
GINNERS: The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association has urged the Trading Corporation of Pakistan not to sell its lint cotton stocks in the local market.
In a press release, PCGA acting chairman Abdul Rashid apprehended that TCP tenders in the local market for its export quality stocks would depress the lint cotton prices in the domestic market.
He said there was lying some 0.4m bales of lint cotton with the ginners across the country to be disposed of before the arrival of the fresh crop. He said if the TCP sold out its stocks in the local market, the stocks lying with the ginners could not be disposed of properly as buyers would prefer the TCP stocks.
He alleged that by calling of tenders in the domestic market, the TCP had proved that it worked on the agenda of powerful textile lobby governed by the All-Pakistan Textile Mills Association.
COTTON GROWERS: The Federal Seed Certification and Registration Department has directed cotton growers to procure seed only from the registered seed companies.
In a handout, the seed certification department warned the growers that uncertified seed of unregistered firms would not only reduce production but also give birth to new diseases and pests in the cotton crop.
The release said a drive against uncertified seed varieties had been launched and a large quantity of fake seeds like K-2000, N-999, N-98, FH-995 and FH-1000 had been confiscated from various parts of the cotton zone of the province.
PSP CHIEF: Pakistan Seraiki Party chief Taj Muhammad Langah has urged the Lahore High Court to take a suo motu action against police for murdering an alleged criminal in a staged encounter.
The Kehror Pucca police, Lodhran district, had killed what they claimed an outlaw, Akram alias Akri Khand, in an encounter the other day.
In a press release issued on Monday, Langah claimed that Akri Khand had written a letter in police custody before his killing, but the police got rid of him before the letter could reach him.
He said an accomplice of Akram, Jindwala Mahaser, was also in police’s illegal custody in Bahawalpur. He claimed Mahaser had also sent a message to him that the police would kill him in a fake encounter.
Langah said he was filing a petition in the high court on behalf of Mahaser, and in between if anything happened to him, the Lodhran police chief would be responsible.
He urged the high court to order registration of a case against senior police officials of Lodhran for ‘murdering’ Akri Khand.
