GUJRANWALA, Feb 10: The city district government allowed on Saturday the Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industries to hold an exhibition of industrial products at Gulshan Iqbal but warned to protect the beauty of the park. The exhibition is a yearly event by the chamber and hundreds of people and foreign delegates visit it.

However, several social welfare organisations and former mayors of the municipality had opposed the exhibition, saying the event affected the park’s beauty. District Nazim Fiaz Ahmad Chattha allowed the event but warned the organisers to maintain the park and ban free entrance to the exhibition. The exhibition will start from March 1. Over 200 stalls of made-in-Gujranwala products will be set up at the park.

STRIKE: Vehicle owners in Wazirabad and Sodara Town observed a strike to protest against patrolling police for beating a driver and demanded that accused police officials be suspended from service.

A wagon was on its way to Sodara Town carrying students of a girls’ college in Wazirabad. When it reached near a patrolling police check post, police officials stopped it and boarded it.

When driver Muhammad Fiaz refused to get them on, they beat him and detained him at the check post. They released him when his other colleagues arrived there. Additional Sessions Judge Mian Murid Hussain took serious note of police highhandedness and ordered the registration of a case against the police officials.

The vehicle owners said that they would not call off the strike unless the officials were suspended from service.