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GUJRANWALA, March 25: A man was injured seriously when a wall of the dilapidated upper storey of the Government AD Model High School on Hafizabad Road here collapsed on Tuesday.
Mushtaq Ahmad, an employee of a book-seller, was taken to the local DHQ hospital in critical condition, according to Senior Headmaster Miraj Din.
Several motorcycles and cars parked outside the school were damaged in the incident. However, the headmaster termed it miraculous that teachers and students had remained unhurt.
Mr Miraj said that a former deputy commissioner, Suleman Sidiq, had declared the upper storey as “dangerous” some 25 years ago and ordered its reconstruction. However, nobody ever bothered to reconstruct it.
He said he had informed the district Nazim as well as the officials concerned in the building and education departments about the dilapidated condition of the building but to no avail.
He termed it fortunate that students taking their annual examination had left the building when the wall collapsed.
He urged the provincial minister for education to get the upper storey of the school reconstructed at the earliest so that loss of life could be avoided.
GEPCO KUTCHERY: Gujranwala Electric Power Company chief executive Brig Saif Ullah Khalid has appealed to consumers to deposit their outstanding dues in banks instead of making payments to Wapda officials.
Speaking at an open Kutchery in Wapda’s Pasrur division on Tuesday, he said that the single-phase connection fee had been reduced from Rs3,500 to 3,000 and the three-phase connection fee from Rs9,400 to Rs8,000.
He said that cable to cable connection would not be allowed at any cost, and vowed to take to task corrupt Wapda officials and power thieves.
He listened to consumers problems and issued directions to the concerned officers for their redressal.
The superintending engineers, executive engineers and sub-divisional officers were present on the occasion.
ATTACK ON IRAQ FLAYED: Local leaders of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan, Jamaat-i-Islami, Tehrik Jafaria, Jamiat Ahl-i-Hadith, Jamaat Ahl-i-Sunnah, Pakistan Shariat Council, PML-N and activists of students organizations condemned the US-UK attack on Iraq and killing of innocent people, and urged the world powers and the UN Security Council to stop the war.
Speaking at a press conference in a local hotel, they urged all Muslim countries to provide food and medicine to Iraqi people.
They lauded Sadam’s speech challenging the US-led coalition and inviting the nation for jihad against Zionists and Americans, and hoped that the US and UK would be defeated by Iraqi forces.
