July 19, 2007	Thursday	Rajab 03, 1428

MULTAN, July 18: Throwing trash or garbage on roads and streets will become a crime punishable with at least Rs200 fine from Aug 1. The City District Government of Multan (CDGM) will enforce a modern mechanised cleanliness system from Aug 1, Naib City District Nazim Wajid Ali said on Wednesday while inspecting a mobile camp at Chungi No 14.

He said Multan would become Pakistan’s first city to adopt this system.

The Solid Waste Management (SWM) Department has set up mobile camps at four union councils to educate people about the new cleanliness system.

An official press release said that 12 such camps would be set up in the city before the enforcement of the new system.

SWM official Abdul Shakoor said sanitary workers and other staff would go from door to door to educate people about the solid waste management strategy and the new system.

He asked people to keep trash in plastic bags outside their houses and shops instead of throwing it on streets and roads. Sanitary workers would pick the trash and dispose it properly.

EXECUTED: Two murder convicts were executed at the New Central Jail here on Wednesday morning.

Assistant Superintendent of Jail Ali Akbar said that convicts Muhammad Iqbal, 35, and his uncle Muhammad Sultan, 45, murdered Muhammad Arif in June 1991 over suspicion that he had illicit relations with Iqbal’s wife. He said that Sahuka police arrested the two and produced them in a district court which awarded them death sentence on November 16, 1996. They filed appeals with the Lahore High Court and the Supreme Court, but they were rejected.

Their bodies were handed to their heirs for a burial in Burewala. — APP