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| July 14, 2005 | Thursday | Jumadi-us-Sani 6, 1426 |
Seven-party alliance against ruling PML
GUJRANWALA, July 13: Around seven political parties, including the PPP and the PML-N, have formed a united group against the ruling PML in the local body elections. The group has also constituted a seven-member committee for organizing the panels of nazim and naib nazim of union councils in Kamoki. Reports said that a meeting in this respect was held at the residence of Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan’s district president Maulana Muhammad Ashraf Jalali here on Wednesday.
The meeting was attended by PPP district president and former MNA Chaudhry Abdullah Virk, tehsil secretary-general Seth Muhammad Aslam, city president Chaudhry Bashir Ahmad Bhopal, PML-N district secretary-general Rana Amir Afzal Khan, Amir Sohail Sethi, Markazi Jamiat Ahl-i-Hadith leader Al-Haj Nazir Ahmad Ansari, JUP’s Naji Muhammad Younas, JI district president Maulana Abdul Rehman Madni, JUI-F’s Allama Ilyas Pasha and Abdul Hamid Goraya.
They elected Maulana Ashraf Jalali as their joint group leader and formed the committee comprising one each member from seven parties.
According to reports, this committee would final the panels for the upcoming local body elections against the ruling party. The meeting also pledged that any rigging attempt by the ruling party in the election would be foiled.
Protest: Sanitary workers and other employees of local government institutions in Wazirabad tehsil have protested against the TMA for non-payment of salaries despite a lapse of two weeks.
Reports said sanitary workers of Ghakkhar Town, Dhaunkel, Alipur Chattha and Sodara gathered at the compound of Wazirabad tehsil municipal office and chanted slogans against non-payment of salaries.
They alleged since the local government setup had been dissolved, the TMA had withheld their salaries.
Meanwhile, the retired employees of local bodies institutions were also deprived of their pension.
The sanitary workers threatened that they would go on strike if their salaries were not paid within the next three days.
When contacted, a TMA spokesman said: “We are facing a financial crisis and salaries could not be paid until the provision of a special grant by the provincial government.”
GETS DEATH: A local court handed down death sentence and fined Rs100,000 to an accused in a murder case here on Wednesday.
The accused will have to undergo a six-month hard jail if he defaults in the payment of fine.
According to the prosecution, convict Umer Khan had killed Noor Ahmad over an old enmity in Thatha Goraya village in Kamoki on Oct 6, 2004.
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