October 19, 2002	Saturday	Sha'aban 12, 1423

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MULTAN, Oct 18: The Bahauddin Zakariya University is organizing a two-day ‘Urdu conference’ from Oct 28.

According to the university press release, BZU vice-chancellor Dr Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry will preside over the first session.

Two sessions will be held each day which are likely to be attended by Urdu Lughat chairman Dr Farman Fatehpuri, Academy of Letters Pakistan chairperson Iftikhar Arif, Muqtaddara Qaumi Zaban president Prof Fateh Muhammad Malik, eminent scholars, educationists and researchers of various universities of the country.

A Mehfil-i-Mushaira will also be arranged on Oct 28 at the university guest house.

AGRICULTURE RESEARCH: The BZU Vice-Chancellor on Friday inaugurated the experimental cultivation of potatoes at the agriculture farm of the university.

Potato seeds being sown on the university farms are developed through the tissue culture technology.

Teachers and students of the University Agriculture College were also present on the occasion. The VC vowed to impart modern technological know-how to students at the college. He said the university would soon introduce tunnel cultivation at the Agriculture College farms on experimental basis.

Briefing the gathering about the tissue-cultured potato, progressive grower Mumtaz Khan Manhais claimed that this would produce 300 maunds of potatoes per acre and, that too, in 120 days. He said the potato was the fifth largest crop in the country viz-a-viz foreign exchange earnings.

He said that Sri Lanka and Thailand were among the countries which imported potato from Pakistan. He said the annual global consumption of potatoes was 2.8 million tons.

REMANDED: A local judicial magistrate on Friday gave the brother of an accused union council nazim into police custody for four days for the recovery of firearms used in the killing of a man and injuries to his uncle on Oct 10, the polling day, reports APP.

Umer Nawaz Khan Babar, the union council nazim, had already been sent to jail on judicial remand and after recovery of a rifle with which he had allegedly killed Muhammad Raza.

His brother Muhammad Asif Nawaz was arrested for the recovery of a pistol which was used in causing injuries to Falak Sher, the uncle of the deceased, in the same incident.