March 22, 2007	Thursday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 2, 1428

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TOBA TEK SINGH, March 21: The district council has alleged that expired medicines were being supplied to the rural health centres and dispensaries under the Punjab Rural Support Programme (PRSP).

A meeting held on Wednesday with acting naib nazim Ramzan Cheechi in the chair, adopted a resolution moved by treasury member Mulazim Abbas Gadhi in which it was stated that the performance of PRSP was ‘very poor’ as a result of which patients were facing a lot of hardship.

The resolution demanded that the management of the PRSP should be given under the district government.

In another resolution, moved by ruling group member Mian Furqan Habib, the house demanded shifting of fruit and vegetable market, general bus stand and veterinary hospital outside the city limits.

STRIKE: The power loom workers of Kamalia continued strike on seventh day on Wednesday for raising their wages.

A workers convention was also held where the workers union office bearers Shabbir Dogar, Arshad Qadri, Ghulam Qadir, Abdullah Ansari and Abdul Latif stated that in Faisalabad and other cities workers were paid Rs1 to Rs1.50 per meter but at Kamalia, they were paid only Rs0.72 per meter.

They warned that if factory owners did not accept their demands, they would be forced to go on hunger strike.

BAR PROTEST: District Bar Association members took out a procession on Wednesday to protest the suspension of the chief justice.

Starting from the district bar room, the processionists marched through Kamalia and Jhang roads.

In their speeches, DBA president Javed Aslam Kahloon, general secretary Mian Naveed Mansoor, three former presidents Mian Shahid Iqbal, Rana Muhammad Anwar and Rai Muhammad Anwar and others urged the president to reinstate the CJ at the earliest.