May 25, 2003	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 22,1424

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BAHAWALPUR, May 24: The 36th death anniversary of the Nawab of Bahawalpur, Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi V, was observed here on Saturday.

For the first time, a local holiday was declared to mark the anniversary. A number of political and social bodies held meetings to pay tributes to the late Nawab.

Speaking at a seminar, Islamia University’s Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Munir Akhtar said that a centre would be established in the varsity to conduct research on the defunct Bahawalpur state and Nawab Sadiq Abbasi.

A library to be set up in the department of history and Pakistan studies will be named after the late amir of Bahawalpur. The portrait of the late Nawab will be displayed in university’s hall the proposal to set up a Sadiq gallery on the campus was also being examined.

History and Pakistan studies department chairman Prof Dr Asif Ali Rizvi, Prof Dr Shahid Rizvi, Prof Malik Muhammad Akbar, Prof Jalil Siddiqui and Malik Habibullah Bhutta also spoke at the seminar.

They paid rich tributes to the late Nawab for his services for the welfare of the people of Bahawalpur state.

An exhibition of postal stamps of the defunct Bahawalpur state and the pictures of late Nawab’s period was also organized by social worker Gulzar Ahmed Ghauri at the Government Technical High School.

It may be recalled that the late Nawab had established Jamia Abbasia in 1925 which was upgraded as Islamia University in prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1975.

PAPER CANCELLED: The visual programming paper of computer B course of BA, BSc first annual examination 2003, has been cancelled on the complaints of candidates, the Islamia University announced on Saturday.

The paper will now held on June 11 (Wednesday) at 9am at the prescribed examination centres of Bahawalpur and Rahim Yar Khan.

wheat: The government has procured around 65 per cent of the 560,000 metric tons of wheat it is supposed to purchase in the region and will achieve the target by the end of the current month.

This was stated by the deputy director (food) for the Bahawalpur region — comprising Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar and Rahim Yar Khan districts, here on Friday.

He dispelled the rumours that gunny bags were in short supply. He said over 4.2 million gunny bags had so far been distributed among growers in the three districts.

LOADSHEDDING: Local domestic and commercial consumers have strongly protested against electricity loadshedding to which they are being subjected on the orders of the Wapda (Mepco) superintending engineer for Bahawalpur.

The supply of electricity is suspended frequently and for hours in sizzling heat.

The affected people have appealed to the Wapda chairman to suspend the orders of the SE.