BAHAWALPUR, June 28: Lawyers of the local district bar association on Saturday burnt copies of the LFO at district courts.
Earlier at a gathering presided over by Shahid Fahim advocate, a number of bar lawyers delivered speeches against the LFO.
They also censured Bar president Masood Hashmi and secretary-general Sardar Asif Khan for their decision to support LFO after meeting with president Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad. They alleged that the Bar president took the decision without the approval of the Bar’s general body.
The lawyers also passed a resolution that in future both the bar president and the secretary-general would have to seek advice of the Bar executive council on vital issues.
The meeting, however, withdrew a proposal that the membership of both office-bearers should be suspended for supporting the LFO.
Anti-LFO lawyers held their meeting when earlier, due to pandemonium, the district bar president had announced the winding up of the district bar meeting requisitioned by 180 members.
BUDGET: : A balanced and tax-free budget of Rs2.62 billion was presented on Saturday for the fiscal year 2003-2004 in the district council meeting, Bahawalnagar.
Presenting the budget, District Nazim Chaudhry Ali Akbar Waince told the House that a sum of Rs1.73 billion and Rs790 million had been reserved for non-development and development expenditures, respectively.
He said that the maximum allocation of Rs1.09 billion had been allocated for the education sector while Rs260 million would be spent on the construction of roads in the district. He also announced a new sewerage project for Minchinabad.
The District Nazim announced “Roshan Bahawalnagar” project under which 125 villages would be electrified by the district government.
