October 1, 2007	Monday	Ramazan 18, 1428

TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 30: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has approved establishment of Comsats University in Toba Tek Singh, a Pakistan Muslim League (PML) lawmaker told a ceremony here on Sunday.

Addressing people at the annual industrial exhibition of the Government Vocational Training Institute, National Assembly member Mian Farhan Latif said the university would be completed in five years with an estimated cost of Rs800 million. He said Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi had allocated 50-acre land for the university near Chak 322-JB Shahzada on Toba-Gojra Road. He said the Punjab government had released Rs35 million for the establishment of a University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, campus on 66 acres near Chak 349-GB.

PML rapped: PPP city president Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali and PML-N district president Chaudhry Amjad Ali Javed condemned PML activists for taking out a procession in police’s supervision and firing in the air.

They said Punjab Forest Minister Ashfaqur Rehman led a PML rally to mark a Supreme Court judgement in the favour of President Gen Pervez Musharraf. They said some PML activists in the rally were drunk and they fired in the air in police’s presence. .