TOBA TEK SINGH: A breach in Moongi minor canal on Tuesday caused inundation of crops on hundreds of acres of farmland in Gojra.
According to local farmers, torrential rain raised water level in the canal, resulting in 20-foot-wide breach near Chak 244-GB.
As a result crops of maize, cotton and fodder on hundreds of acres were destroyed. The breach was plugged by joint efforts of farmers and irrigation department staff.
DEMO: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf activists staged a protest demonstration on Tuesday at Kamalia to condemn police torture of participants in Azadi and Inqilab marches in Islamabad.
A local PTI leader, Khizer Khan Kharal, said in his speech on the occasion that if prime minister did not resign more people would have to go to Islamabad to join the marches.
HELD: Kamalia police arrested two more Pakistan Awami Tehreek activists here on Tuesday.
The arrested PAT workers -- Abdul Bari of Khalid Colony and Naseeb Ahmad of Charh Muhallah -- have been shifted to district jail.
Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2014
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