13 February 2005	Sunday	03 Muharram 1426

JHANG, Feb 12: Two sons of a labourer were killed and six members of the family injured when the roof of the room in which they were sleeping collapsed during rain on Friday night, in Kashmiri Colony No 3 of Thal area, some 45 kilometres from here.

Sadiq has been living in a mud house in the colony. When his neighbours pulled the family from rubble, his sons, aged 14 and five years, whose names could not be ascertained, had died, while six members, including his wife and two daughters, were injured.

WOMEN'S PROTEST: Women councillors staged a token hunger strike for two hours in front of the Jhang Press Club on Saturday against reduction in the number of general and women councillors at various levels of local government.

The strike was also joined by HRCP district coordinator Qamar Zaidi, Benjamin Barkat and a large number of women councillors of the district.

Later, Mrs Perveen Afza Sheikh and Razia Rao demand that the government and the NRB should withdraw the decision to cut the number of general councillors in a union council from 21 to 13.

They also demanded that the number of union councils should not be decreased by merging them into each other and hold election of district, tehsil and town Nazims directly rather than indirectly.