MULTAN, July 24: The government will amend the Zakat Ordinance to give funds directly to the administrators of the seminaries so that they could distribute these on their discretion.

This was stated by the provincial minister for Auqaf and religious affairs Dr Ghulam Sarwar Qadri while chairing a meeting here on Wednesday.

According to an official handout, the minister said the president would be urged to do the necessary amendments to the Zakat Ordinance. He said plenty of funds were available with the government and notice would be taken if the deserving people were deprived of these funds.

He assured that the students of the religious schools would be given reasonable funds.

He urged the representatives of various schools of thought to promote the culture of harmony and tolerance for making a peaceful society.

The minister claimed he had invited attention of the Punjab governor towards the lewd cinema hoardings and the latter had directed all the district Nazimeen to get these removed.

Acid attack: Some unidentified intruders threw acid on four members of a family when they were asleep at their house in the New Multan area on Wednesday morning.

Reports said a watch dealer of the city’s busy Husain Agahi Bazaar, Qazi Daud, 60, his wife, daughter Rabia and 3-year-old grand-daughter Khaula were asleep in the courtyard of their house in block Z of the New Multan when some people scaled the boundary wall and sprinkled acid on all of them. A wooden ladder was reportedly found outside the wall of courtyard.

The victims were taken to the Nishtar Hospital where Rabia’s condition was stated to be critical.

The New Multan police have registered a case.