May 04, 2008	Sunday	Rabi-us-Sani 27, 1429

TOBA TEK SINGH, May 3: Hundreds of traders and people from other walks of life on Saturday took out a protest procession over ‘unbearable’ loadshedding at Kamalia.

The protesters raised slogans against the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company officials who, they said, were disrupting power supply for almost 18 to 19 hours a day. The traders said their businesses had been affected due to loadshedding.

PRESS FREEDOM: Members of the press club and District Bar Association on Saturday organised the World Press Freedom Day, lauding the services of journalists and their struggle for the press freedom. Lahore High Court Bar Association vice-president Mian Muhammad Aslam said the lawyers had been greatly helped by the media in their movement against dictatorship.

Tariq Saeed, the press club secretary, said the journalists had immense contributions for the just causes for which they had braved untold hardships.