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GUJRANWALA, July 17: The Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association and the Punjab Teachers Union will observe Thursday as protest day and boycott the central marking of intermediate papers against denationalization of educational institutions.
At a meeting held here on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Ittehad-i-Asatiza divisional president Prof Mukhtar Ahmad, the participants expressed their apprehension that the doors of education would be closed for poor students as the government had already allowed the owners of these institutions to enhance the fee.
They said government educational institutions were receiving Rs1,500 as annual fee from first-year students, while the denationalized institutions would charge Rs18,000 which was unjustice.
Meanwhile, Islami Jamiat Tulaba has announced that it will also initiate an anti-denationalization movement from Thursday.
SUICIDE: A jobless youth committed suicide by taking poisonous pills in Garjakh on Wednesday.
Akbar demanded money from his parents and on refusal, he took poison. He died while being taken to hospital.
DEATH SENTENCE: The additional district and sessions judge handed down death sentence on five counts each with a fine of Rs2.25 million collectively to Iqbal, Nawaz and Mansha in a murder case here on Wednesday.
The court acquitted co-accused Manzoor Khaliq, former Kot Ladha SHO, giving him the benefit of the doubt. While three co-accused Riasat, Naveed and Javed Iqbal were declared proclaimed offenders.
According to the prosecution, the convicts had killed five people — Akram, Javed Akhtar, Muhammad Akhtar, Hamad, 13, and Jamshed, 12 — over an old enmity in Chak Chattha on May 6, 2000.
SNAKE BITE: A prayer leader died of snake-bite in Kamoki on Wednesday.
Rashid was on his way to Jeweki village when a snake bit him. He was rushed to the Civil Hospital, Kamoki, where he died.
