December 27, 2002	Friday	Shawwal 22, 1423

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MULTAN, Dec 26: The Anjuman Mazareen Punjab (AMP) has vowed not to give importance to the eviction orders being served on tenants in Sahiwal and Okara.

A big rally of the Okara military farms’ tenants was held at Chak 10/4L on Wednesday to mark Christmas Day. Hundreds of tenants from all the military farms’ villages irrespective of their religious belief thronged to celebrate the day.

It was informed in the rally that the military farms management had started issuing eviction notices to tenants for their failure to pay the land rent which was forcibly imposed after declaring them lessors instead of tenants.

Initially, the notices were served in Chak 26/4L. However, the Agriculture department had already served similar notices on tenants of Sahiwal maize farms. Participants of the rally expected that eviction notices would soon be issued to tenants of all the 21 state-owned agricultural and livestock farms in the province under one pretext or the other.

Speaking on the occasion, AMP leaders Javed and David said that tenants would not compromise on their demand for proprietary rights over the lands of their tenancy which they had been cultivating for nearly a century.

“We will not only set aside the eviction orders but we are also considering not to share crops with the government in future at any of the farms,” they said. Speakers cited the example of Peerowal farms of the Punjab Seed Corporation in Khanewal where tenants had not only raised and harvested cotton crop this year on their own but they had also sown their own wheat.

The rally demanded the immediate release of all the detained AMP activists after the withdrawal of fake cases instituted against them.

two murdered: Two persons were murdered in different parts of the district on Thursday.

A man was shot dead allegedly by the former husband of his second wife in Gulgashat Colony.

Haji Riaz was asleep when Abdul Rahman along with five accomplices trespassed the house and shot him dead.

Riaz’s father told police that his son had married to a divorcee, Farzana, some eight days ago after divorcing his first wife, Kaneez Bibi. He alleged that Farzana’s former husband Rahman had threatened that he would kill the man who would marry her.

In another incident, 11-year-old Ramzan was strangled to death allegedly by his brother-in-law in the Bohargate police station area.

Fayyaz’s wife Uzma had been living with her parents, and his all efforts for reconciliation had proved futile. At this, he reportedly kidnapped Uzma’s brother Ramzan and killed him. Later, he buried his body in the sands of Mauza Thathi Lal in the outskirts of Multan city.

However, the police recovered the body when they interrogated Fayyaz on suspicion.

PPP: The local chapter of the Pakistan People’s Party has chalked out a plan to accord a ward welcome to Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani on his first visit to his hometown after being released on bail from NAB custody.

Mr Gillani is expected to come to Multan on Saturday by train.