January 09, 2007	Tuesday	Zilhaj 18, 1427

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CHAKWAL, Jan 8: District Council Chakwal, in a meeting on Monday, approved disbursement of over Rs20.6 million educational stipends to intelligent students, while various development schemes of citizens community boards were also okayed.

The meeting was presided over by District Naib Nazim Sardar Amjad Ilyas. The house was told that after the upgradation of various schools in the district, 269 vacancies had been created. The house also approved recruitment against the vacancies.

The members who spoke on the occasion included Syed Maqbool Hussain Shah, Pir Nisar Qasim, Chaudhry Azad Advocate, Amir Butt Advocate, Chaudhry Muzafar Khan, Nazar Abbas, and Gul-i-Nasreen.

A woman councillor told the house that district and tehsil women councillors were given the honorarium approved by the Punjab government, but women union councillors had not received a penny.

The Revenue Committee convener, Chaudhry Azad Advocate, presented a report on the property and land of District Council Chakwal.

He suggested that the land should be utilised on commercial basis, while the agriculture land be given to the people on lease basis. It would not only increase the income of the district government, but also secure its land and property, he added. The house unanimously approved the report.

CASE ADJOURNED: The proceedings of a judicial inquiry into a police encounter at Jhethal Village were put off till January 12.

The SHO of Dhudial Police Station, Malik Abdul Rauf, submitted a written application to the inquiry officer, Senior Civil Judge Abdul Raheem, requesting the court that he wanted to present all his witnesses on the same day, therefore he should be given some time.

The judge directed him to produce witnesses before the court on January 12. A local trader, Mohammad Saleem, was killed when police and proclaimed offenders exchanged fire.

Police registered a murder case against the proclaimed offenders, while the victim’s widow, in her written application, claimed that her husband was killed by police firing.

SHOPS RAZED: Eighteen shops of Municipal Committee Chakwal were bulldozed on the directions of Supreme Court.

Civil Judge Tahir Khan Niazi had directed the Tehsil Municipal Administration to demolish the shops located on Jinnah Road.