21 April 2005	Thursday	11 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1426

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BAHAWALPUR, April 20: Only the bona fide Cholistanis have the right to allotment of land in Cholistan while strict action will be taken on any complaint of injustice in this regard. This was stated by Punjab Colonies Minister Mian Manazir Ali Ranjha at a briefing session in the office of Cholistan Development Authority (CDA) managing director Maj-Gen Abdul Razzaq (retired).

The minister said the allotment of land in Cholistan should be continued in a transparent manner. He warned that officials found involved in the bogus allotment would be taken to task.

The minister on the complaints of MPAs asked the CDA managing director to probe into the alleged wrong land allotments. He directed to wipe out landgrabbers in Cholistan.

In his briefing, the CDA managing director said that except for one all the illegal occupants had been ejected. He said that around 27,000 acres of land had been retrieved from landgrabbers while damages to the tune of Rs8 million had also been recovered from them.

Mr Razzaq said that some 13,000 Cholistanis had been allotted 150,000 acres of land while about 400,000 acres were available for further allotment in the desert.

EXTENDED: The Daewoo has extended its AC express coach service from Bahawalpur to Sadiqabad-Rahim Yar Khan.

District Nazim Tariq Cheema, DCO Imran Ahmed and Bahawalpur range DIG Chaudhry Ghulam Haider Marth jointly performed the launching ceremony of the bus service on Wednesday.

Daewoo finance director Y.H Lee and terminal manager Ali Raza said the network was being widened to provide maximum travelling facilities to the people of far-flung areas in south Punjab.

The DCO said that it was a step forward to extend the service up to Karachi in the next phase.

It was learnt that the Korean transport company would soon extend its operation to D.I Khan, Kohat, Bannu, Swat, Naran, Muzaffarabad and Sialkot.

BAN: The District Nazim on Wednesday under section 144 extended up to May 11 the ban on holding of political and religious rallies imposed by the Punjab government.