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FAISALABAD, Oct 17: Elected nazims and councillors of union councils, town administrations and the city district government took oath in different meetings here on Monday.
Additional district and sessions judges, appointed as presiding officers, took oath from nazims and their councillors.
While the district returning officer took oath from City District Nazim Rana Zahid Tauseef in a ceremony held at the TMA Complex.
Later, City District Nazim Rana Zahid Tauseef, Lyallpur Town Nazim Rana Zahid Mehmood, Madina Town Nazim Ali Akhtar Khan, Iqbal Town Nazim Sajjad Haider Cheema, Jinnah Town Nazim Shahzad Malik, Samundri Town Nazim Shah Nawaz, Tandlianwala Town Nazim Ali Gohar Baloch, Jaranwala Town Nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Akram and Chak Jhumra Town Nazim Fawad Cheema visited their respective offices along with their staff and took the official charge.
Various local body heads issued some typical and formal orders about the provisions of details of assets and complete lists of employees with their working tasks.
Previously, Faisalabad and its adjoining rural areas had been divided into two tehsil municipal administrations — City and Sadar — during local elections in 2001.
In the present set up, Faisalabad is declared the city district and the two TMAs are converted into four towns — Lyallpur, Jinnah, Iqbal and Madina. While other four tehsils — Samundri, Jaranwala, Tandlianwala and Chak Jhumra have also been given the town status.
Offices of Madina, Lyallpur and Iqbal town councils have been allotted to the defunct TMA City Complex while the Jinnah Town offices are being established in the Zila Council’s old Rest House.
CDGF offices would be set up in the defunct Zila Council Complex for which its renovation is being done.
NO CLUE: Police failed to find any clue to abductors and the kidnapped child of a local trader despite the passage of six days.
Police officials said that special teams had been constituted to trace the abductors, but no progress could be made in this regard.
They admitted that the kidnappers were sharp enough and were demanding Rs20 million ransom from the victim family for the release of Shayan Mubashar.
Sources close to the victim family said that abductors had made four cell phone calls and demanded ransom with threats to the family for the life of Shayan.
They said some steps had been taken by family members on their own to establish contacts with abductors so that they could be paid the ransom amount.
Meanwhile, police teams raided some suspected hideouts of abductors in different parts of the district, but without any success.
Four unknown abductors had kidnapped Shayan when the driver of industrialist Mubashar Ahmed was on his way to drop the child to school in the Peoples Colony area.
