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TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 28: The Pirmahal police arrested on Friday district naib nazim Chaudhry Khalid Sardar on charges of harbouring four proclaimed offenders (POs).
On a tip-off, the Nishatabad police of Faisalabad district raided Sardar’s house in Farooq Colony to arrest POs Sajid Ameen Pappu, Ghulam Abbas, alias Kaloo Shah, Eidoo Faqeer and Ijaz, alias Kaka, wanted in different cases of murder and dacoity.
When the police were about to overpower the POs, Sardar engaged the policemen in talks to help POs flee from the backdoor of the house. The police, however, tried to chase the POs but they opened fire, frustrating the whole pursuit.
The police arrested Sardar and registered a case under Section 216 of the Pakistan Penal Code and sections 3/4 of The Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Order, 1979, and seized two cars (AEA-1260 and FSD-324) which were used by the POs, imported liquor and cellular phone sets.
RALLY: Brick kiln workers and activists of the National Workers Party (NWP) and the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) staged a rally here on Friday.
Chanting slogans to raise workers’ wages and to provide them facilities, the demonstrators marched on different roads to reach the district press club where NWP provincial secretary Rana Azam, LPP district secretary Tariq Mahmood, Syed Zulfiqar Mahmood, Boota Maseeh and Riaz Maseeh addressed them.
Speakers demanded raising workers’ wages to Rs442 per 1,000 kacha bricks from Rs300 being paid by kiln owners. They announced that they would rally again on Dec 6 if their demands were not met.
GYMNASIUM: Chief Secretary Javed Mahmood has directed the officials concerned to complete the local gymnasium at the earliest for which the government had provided Rs43 million funds.
A press release issued here on Friday said that the chief secretary directed Commissioner Zahid Saeed and DCO Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf to also include in the gymnasium the land lying vacant in front of the under-construction building. The chief secretary also visited Gojra and inspected under-construction building of Government Commercial Training Institute.
While talking to a delegation of citizens, the chief secretary assured them that DHQ Hospital’s intensive care unit would be given into hospital's custody after taking it from an NGO’s while doctors would soon be appointed against vacant posts.
