July 24, 2008	Thursday	Rajab 20, 1429

TOBA TEK SINGH, July 23: The 35-member Punjab University Archaeology Department team continued digging historical mound near Chak 742/GB, some 40 kilometres away from here, for the second consecutive day on Wednesday.

The experts recovered more clay pots and preserved them for carrying out research, opining that they were of the time of Harappa civilisation.

They said that further digging was possible only after about 200 houses constructed by villagers on the mound were demolished.

However, farmers and peasants, who reside in these houses and mostly belong to the family of 165-year-old Mian Khan (as his family claims), have protested the “so-called” digging.

They claimed that in fact all of them had voted against MNA Riaz Fatyana so he had made a plot to make them homeless in the name of research.