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NAROWAL, Aug 4: The ongoing cold war between the ruling PML district president and secretary-general may adversely affect the party’s vote bank in the upcoming local polls.
Both the office-bearers were backing their own groups in various union councils and were campaigning against each other’s candidates.
PML district president MPA Khizar Ilyas Wirk and the secretary-general Khawaja Waseem Butt are supporting different panels of nazims and naib-nazims in the four union councils of the city.
In city’s UC 1, Khawaja Waseem is himself a candidate for the nazim’s slot, but Mr Wirk is supporting his rival candidate Maulana Abdur Razzaq. Similarly, in UC 2, Khwaja Waseem is supporting his brother Khawaja Nadeem for nazim’s slot, but Mr Wirk is backing the rival candidate Farooq Khan. In UC 3, Khawaja Waseem is supporting Akhtar Hussain Bhatti for nazim, whereas Khizar Ilyas Wirk is supporting Faisal Dar, while In UC 4, Mr Waseem is backing Mirza Muhammad Akhtar for nazim’s seat while Mr Wirk is behind his rival candidate Muhammad Usman.
A similar situation in many other union councils has created a confusion among the PML workers, who are finding it difficult to decide as to which course they should opt in the fast approaching polls.
SPECIAL CHILDREN: District government is constructing a Rs20 million rehabilitation centre for the handicapped children.
This was stated by DCO Rao Manzar Hayat while chairing a meeting for special children’s welfare.
He said the district government had decided to bear all the education and welfare expenses of the special children in the district. He said the government was already supporting 1,000 special children in the district.
He lauded the parents who were properly looking after their handicapped children and asked them to coordinate with the district government for planning the welfare of such children.
Education EDO Muhammad Riaz, Community Development EDO Irshad Ahmed and Finance and Planning EDO Iqbal Akhtar also attended the meeting.
FESTIVAL: District government has arranged a festival for special children on Friday (today) at the Faiz Ahmed Faiz park. As many as 350 special children from all over the district have been invited to the event. DCO will be the chief guest on the occasion.
