December 16, 2002	Monday	Shawwal 11, 1423

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SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 15: PPP activists on Sunday blocked the Sargodha Road for two hours in protest against the murder of the party’s Farooqabad senior vice-president.

After the funeral prayers of Mian Asmatullah, the participants led by PPP MNA Khurram Munawwar Manj suspended all modes of traffic. They alleged the police did not arrest the killers who were roaming freely in the city.

Afzal, Shehzad, Latif and Arshad had shot dead Asmatullah on Saturday for pursuing a criminal case against them as some time ago they had murdered his son.

TUBEWELLS: The Employees Welfare Federation president of the Irrigation Department has demanded the government to withdraw its plan of closing scarp tubewells in some parts of the district.

Talking to newsmen, EWF president Khushi Mohammad Khokhar said the government had conceived the plan to close dozens of functional scarp tubewells in Nankana tehsil.

The country, he said, was already facing acute water shortage and the closure of tubewells would further aggravate the situation. He urged the authority concerned to avoid framing anti-farmer policies.

Present on the occasion, the Kisan Board president also expressed his resentment over the proposed plan of the government to close the scarp tubewells.

CRUSHED: An unidentified man was crushed to death on Sunday by a speeding bus on the GT Road.

The body was removed to mortuary for autopsy.

Police are going into the matter.