March 17, 2003	Monday	Muharram 13, 1424

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MULTAN, March 16: Only 23 to 25 per cent of the Annual Development Programme funds have been utilized in the nine months of the current fiscal year.

This was pointed out by the accountant general of Punjab, Wazeer Ahmad Qureshi, here on Saturday at an open Kutchery in the local district accounts office.

He said the AG office had been monitoring the pace of ADP in each of the 34 districts of the province on a day-to-day basis and sending summaries to the chief minister.

He said that hardly one-fourth of the Rs22 billion allocated under ADP had been utilized.

The AGP announced that the ban on drawing the GP Fund in advance would be lifted by March 31.

PROBE: The Muzaffargarh district and sessions judge has ordered a judicial probe into the ‘Mehmood Kot police encounter’, which claimed lives of two alleged outlaws.

A civil judge from Kot Addu tehsil, Yaser Nadeem, has been appointed to probe the circumstances surrounding the death of Shahid Chandia and Akram on March 7.

The inquiry officer has reportedly fixed March 18, 19, and 20 to record evidence in the matter. It may be added here that Punjab IGP Syed Masood Shah has also ordered an inquiry into the ‘encounter’.

Families of the deceased alleged that Mehmood Kot SHO Azmatullah Gurmani had killed Shahid and Akram to avenge the complaints lodged by Shahid against him with police highups and the Lahore High Court four years ago.