May 04, 2007	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 16, 1428

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GUJRANWALA, May 3: A Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team claimed on Thursday to have arrested three more human agents in a raid and got their physical remand from a local court.

Reports said that FIA (passport cell) additional director Hussain Asghar received information that the accused were present at their residences. On his direction, the FIA team, headed by inspectors Mian Sabir and Nadim Asif Khan, raided on the houses of the accused in Gujrat, Gujranwala and Pasrur and arrested them.

Those arrested were identified as Nadim Butt, Mustafa alias Baga and Mian Muhammad Saleem. The agency said that the accused were wanted in several cases of human smuggling in Greece and other countries.

MILK PRICES: Citizens have protested against the milkmen and shopkeepers for raising the prices of milk and curd arbitrarily in big towns of the district and asked the district administration to take stern action against them.

At a meeting held here on Thursday, representatives of civic circles said that milk and curd available at Rs24 and Rs25 per kilogramme a few days ago were now being sold at Rs30 and Rs35 per kilogramme, respectively.

They demanded that the district administration should fix the prices of milk and curd.

Paddy growers: The Punjab government has promised better facilities to the paddy growers to increase the production of rice.

Sources said here on Thursday that Agriculture Minister Husain Jehanian Gardezi had directed almost all executive district officers (agriculture) across the province and urged them to send experts to villages to inform growers of modern techniques regarding growing paddy.

The agriculture department has suggested the paddy growers to consult experts before growing nursery and later spraying dung and pesticides to avoid pest attack.

They said the Punjab government had fixed the target of sowing basmati on 3.67 million acres, Irri-9 on 600,000 acres and Irri-6 on remaining land in 35 districts of the province. Gujranwala, Sialkot, Narowal, Mandi Bahauddin and Hafizabad districts are known for growing basmati, super and other varieties of rice in several countries of the world.