March 31, 2003	Monday	Muharram 27, 1424

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GUJRANWALA, March 30: The industrial exhibition of made in Gujranwala is continuing in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park on the GT Road.

The High Commissioners and ambassadors of various countries including Kenya, Malaysia, Sudan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka besides the Corps Commander and MPAs also paid their visits.

They appreciated the quality products of made in Gujranwala and expressed the hope that the industrial exhibition would be helpful in enhancing the export.

The local chamber of commerce and industry president, Khawaja Tahir Hassan, said here on Sunday that over 100 stalls of quality products had been installed by local manufacturers and industrialists.

He said the GCCI had also arranged various variety programmes which were cancelled due to attack on Iraq.

WASA MEN BEATEN UP: The members of a Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) recovery team were beaten up by some defaulters here on Sunday.

According to sources, a special Wasa magistrate had served summons on five defaulters Anjum Kala, Abdul Razaq, Abdul Ghaffar, Shaukat Ali and Imran Masood.

When a Wasa team, including Zahid, Amjad, Sidiq and Ghafoor, went to houses of the defaulters to deliver the court order, the accused tore it to pieces and beat them up.

The Kotwali police have registered a case against the accused.

POLICE CLAIMS: The district police have arrested 350 proclaimed offenders, busted more than a dozen gangs of dacoits and recovered a huge quantity of illicit arms and looted goods during a special drive over the last two and a half months, claimed DPO Saud Aziz at a briefing here on Sunday.

The DPO said that 570 cases of illicit arms possession were registered and 16 Kalashnikovs, 65 rifles, 61 12-bore guns, 77 revolvers, 330 pistols, 18 carbines and 3,110 round of ammunition recovered.

He said that looted goods worth Rs11.45 million besides two and a half kilograms of heroin, 15kg of charas, 1,530 bottles of liquor had also been recovered from the possession of those arrested.