BAHAWALPUR: Jamaat-i-Islami Punjab Emir Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar has submitted a resolution in the Punjab Assembly Secretariat for the creation of the fourth district comprising the areas of Cholistan in Bahawalpur division.

At a function here on Sunday, the MPA said the people of the desert area were facing host of problems, especially unavailibility of drinking water and fodder for the cattle, due to which they had to shift to green areas every year.

He said no government department had resolved the problems the people of Cholistan had been facing and even the Cholistan Development Authority had proved unequal to the task. It’s in this backdrop, he said, that he had moved the resolution demanding creation of a new district.

He alleged that the Punjab Assembly speaker was creating hurdles in submission of the resolution in the house and insisting that ‘rulers’ were not allowing it to be tabled. He deplored that the Punjab government had spent millions of rupees on the development of Lahore but Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar had been ignored.

MPA says speaker is creating hurdles

ZAKAT CHEQUES: Punjab Minister for Zakat and Ushr Malik Nadeem Kamran on Sunday distributed cheques worth Rs50 million among the heads of health facilities and technical institutions for the deserving.

He said the department had also provided monetary funds to the tune of Rs10 million to the Shaukat Khanum Hospital, Lahore and Rs90 million to 20,000 students of Punjab’s 382 seminaries.

TORTURE: A woman was allegedly tortured by eight people, four women among them, in Yazman city’s Ward No 8, about 30 kilometres from here.

Razia Bibi complained to the Yazman DSP that eight people including Rafiq, Abbas, Rashida Sarwar, Salima Bibi, Safia Bibi and Rahim Bibi trespassed on her house and tortured her and her husband. They also shaved off her head and opened fire to browbeat the family over a land dispute.

The DSP ordered an inquiry into the incident and sought report from the SHO.

Published in Dawn, September 22nd, 2014