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GUJRANWALA, June 3: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and some other religio-political parties have vowed to continue campaign against obscenity.
At a meeting held here on Tuesday, they demanded the government that it should adopt measures to eliminate obscenity from the district. MMA District President Hafiz Hamid Akhtar presided over the meeting.
The participants expressed concern over the district administration and police’s failure to eliminate obscenity from cinemas, circuses, theatres and other plague-spots.
Alliance’s MNA Maulana Qazi Hamidullah said he was not worried about the registration of a case against him and more than 200 other activists on the charge of setting a circus on fire. He pledged that he would continue to cooperate with the religious parties without any fear.
Meanwhile, scores of theatre artistes took out a procession against the police action, and demanded the release of their colleagues.
ROAD CONSTRUCTION: A two-way road from the municipal complex to Chand da Qila by-pass will be constructed at a cost of Rs120 million.
This was stated by Tehsil Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad while inaugurating the project here on Tuesday.
Referring to other development projects, he said the construction of a burn unit at the District Headquarters Hospital would start in few days. The project would cost Rs100 million, he added.
He said the government had planned to build a residential colony at Jinnah Town on the Sialkot Road in the next fiscal year.
shootout: A drug pusher was killed while his two aides fled following an encounter with police at Wazirabad on Tuesday.
Reports said Muhammad Shabbir and his accomplices Malik Muhammad Sajid and Faqir Ahmad were going somewhere by a car (LXN-5336) when a police party signalled them to stop near a school. However, the driver accelerated the car’s speed while his aides opened fire on the police. In the returned firing, Shabbir was killed. His accomplices escaped.
The police claimed that Sajid and his brother Malik Majid were wanted in various cases of narcotics and for killing a Civil Lines police constable, Sibghatullah, in an encounter.
Police have registered a case against the accused.
