September 15, 2007	Saturday	Ramazan 2, 1428

GUJRANWALA, Sept 14: The police have failed to sent back more than 25 per cent cases to the district public prosecution branch in the stipulated time after removing objections, causing delay in the disposal of cases by courts.

District public prosecutor Chaudhry Fiaz Ahmad Warraich claimed this while talking to Dawn here on Friday.

He said that 4,589 cases, including 284 of murder, 367 of hudood, 375 of narcotics and 72 of terrorism, were sent to the prosecution branch for scrutiny.

Of them, he said 29 cases were forwarded to police in March, 51 in April, 43 in May, 659 in June and 404 in July to remove objections, but the police fell down on the job.

Deputy district public prosecutor Babar Javed Dar said he identified 65 objections of similar nature in these cases, but these were yet not removed.

They alleged that police officers were not taking any interest in completing the chargesheets in the stipulated period.

RALLY: Activists of the Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) took out a rally on the GT Road in protest against the killing of their colleagues in Karachi by activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).

The protesters threatened to launch countrywide protests if the Sindh government did not arrest the culprits immediately.

Carrying banners and placards, they shouted slogans against the government and the MQM leadership.

Addressing the rally, IJT city president Yousaf Rana and secretary-general Muhammad Sufian alleged that the MQM was a fascist party and was involved in terrorist activities.

They claimed that the Canadian government had already declared the MQM as a terrorist organization.

UPLIFT PROJECTS: Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco) chief executive Rana Muhammad Ashraf Zahid on Friday urged the field officers to get the target of development projects completed in the stipulated period.

He said that 1,642 transformers had been installed during the current year while 168 kilometers of 11kv and 341 kilometers of LT lines were revamped besides completing 27 feeders at a cost of Rs533 million.

In addition, he said the capacity of 15 transformers had been enhanced and four new transformers were added to the system with an expenditure of Rs500 million which had improved the power supply system.

He pointed out that the 132kv Wazirabad grid station would be completed in the current month, the 132kv Sialkot Road grid station in December 2007 and the 132kv Ghauinke grid station in October 2009 with a sum of Rs733 million.

HEARING: The anti-terrorism court No 1 continued hearing of the Sialkot jail case against an accused, former inspector Zulfikar Ali Virk, and recorded statements of IG (Prison) Sarfraz Mufti, inspector Abdullah and jail head warder Nisar Ahmad on Friday.

The judge had already recorded the statements of other witnesses on Thursday.

The court will record the statements of complainant and district and sessions judge Chaudhry Zafer Hussain, additional sessions judge Muhammad Yousaf Aujala and other judges on Saturday (today).