November 15, 2006	Wednesday	Shawwal 22, 1427

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BAHAWALPUR, Nov 14: Traffic police impounded buses and wagons on Tuesday for fetching people to ‘Jashn Tameer-i-Nau’ to be addressed by Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi here on Wednesday.

Moreover, fearing impounding of the vehicles, many transporters took their vehicles off road. Due to shortage of public transport vehicles, commuters had to face great inconvenience.

Meanwhile, the chief minister, during his daylong visit here, will have a hectic schedule.

He will perform ground breaking of various uplift projects costing about Rs2 billion in the city.

The district nazim has made elaborate arrangements for welcome of the chief minister, including illumination on government buildings and roads which will incur heavy expenditure of the district government.

NO PERMISSION: The Rahim Yar Khan district government refused permission to the PPP to hold public meeting on Nov 16.

PPP district president Riaz Dahar, secretary-general Ali Ahsan, information secretary Salim Bhatti and other office-bearers in a statement here on Tuesday condemned the district government and said by denying the permission, the administration had violated their constitutional and basic rights.

POLIO: A three-day anti-polio campaign was launched in the district on Tuesday.

Around half a million children will be administered polio drops during the campaign. The health department has formed 948 mobile and 121 fixed teams with 2,600 personnel for the task.