April 15, 2007	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 26, 1428

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TOBA TEK SINGH, April 14: Kamalia police on Saturday registered a case against five lawyers and their nine companions for allegedly torturing some lawyers of their opponent group led by former bar president Siddique Akbar Khatana.

Reports said that Khatana, who claims himself to be the elected bar president, had written to the Punjab Bar Council to cancel the membership of lawyers Waseem Bahar and Malik Bashir of the Hamjana group for their participation in the lawyers’ convention in Lahore.

Both lawyers went to Khatana’s office and asked him that since they did not attend the convention why their names were forwarded to the PBC. The tempers boiled on the issue and lawyers of the Hamjana group allegedly attacked on some lawyers of the Khatana group and tortured them as well.

Police took into custody acting Kamalia bar president Iqbal Hamjana and his five colleagues who were later allowed to go.

Dozens of lawyers belonging to the Kathana group later blocked traffic at Thana Morr for about half an hour in protest and also burnt used tyres.

CHANGED: On the complaint of candidates, Faisalabad Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education authorities on Saturday changed with immediate effect superintendents of two examination centers in Toba Tek Singh.

Reports said that students had lodged a complaint with the BISE authority that the two superintendents had not given them the allotted time to solve their papers on Friday.

Muhammad Naeem of Faisalabad and Miss Shaheen of Jhang have assumed their charges as new superintendents in place of Mehr Noor Akbar of Jhang and Miss Gul Nasreen of Kamalia at Government Model High School and Government Girls High School No 1 examination centers, respectively.