July 04, 2008	Friday	Jamadi-us-Sani 29, 1429

TOBA TEK SINGH, July 3: Dacoits drove away with a mini-truck laden with cotton yarn worth millions of rupees here on Thursday.

Reports said truck driver Haji Mahmood was on his way from Faisalabad to Toba. Near Chak 315-JB, Kala Pahaar, on Toba-Gojra Road, a car overtook the truck and stopped it. Four motorists overpowered the truck driver and made him unconscious by chloroform. They tied him with a rope and drove away with his truck. The driver had been admitted to DHQ hospital.

In another incident, dacoits took away cash, mobile phones and other valuables from pickup owner Afzaal on Toba-Khikha Road. Afzaal told the police that two masked men stopped him near Chak 297-GB and robbed him of his cash and valuables.

HUNGER STRIKE: Former district bar association president Mian Shahid Iqbal and senior lawyer Malik Amjad Husain observed a token hunger strike on Thursday for the restoration of deposed judges.

DBA President Mian Shoaib Muhammad, secretary Sardar Iqbal Dogar and other senior lawyers were also present in the hunger strike camp. Lawyers also observed a complete strike at Gojra and Kamalia.

CONTAMINATED WATER: District Coordination Officer Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf on Thursday took a serious notice of the supply of contaminated drinking water from a filtration plant installed in low-income housing colony here.

During a surprise visit to the plant, he found it dysfunctional and ordered its rectification.