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GUJRANWALA, Sept 18: PML-Q activists have dropped their plan of a no-trust move against the district Nazim following the unification of five factions of the PML under the leadership of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, it was learnt here on Thursday.
The source said that district Nazim Fayyaz Ahmad Chattha and his father PML-J chief Chaudhry Hamid Nasir Chattha had opposed PML-Q aspirant Sajjad Ahmad Khan, brother of provincial transport minister Chaudhry Shamshad Ahmad Khan, during the election for the post of tehsil Nazim of Kamoki and instead held public meetings in Kamoki and Wahando in favour of rival candidate Rana Muhammad Asif, nominee of prime minister’s political adviser and former federal minister Rana Nazir Ahmad Khan.
Annoyed by the politics of the PML-J chief and the district Nazim, activists of the ruling party were said to be planning a no-trust movement against the Nazim in consultation with the party leadership, and seeking the support of PPP and other rival parties in this regard. When PML factions announced unification, the local political situation changed and district Nazim’s position was consolidated.
FOUR RUN OVER BY TRAINS: As many as four people were run over and killed by trains in separate incidents in and around the city here on Thursday.
Sources said a railways police official, Sajjad Anwer, was travelling in the Karachi-bound Awam Express, when he slipped off the train gate between Kamoki and Eminabad railway stations and was crushed to death.
One Muhammad Bashir, son of Nawab Din of Irfat Colony, was crossing the railway line near a filing station near Sheranwala Bagh when he was run over by an express train. He died on the spot.
Nazir Hussain of Gujrat was going to Lahore by train. At the city railway station, he slipped and fell off the train. He was cut into two pieces.
Maqsood Ahmad of Katcha Pumpwali committed suicide by placing himself before a locomotive at the local railway station. He died on the spot.
The railway police have registered separate cases.
SHOT DEAD BY SONS: A retired school headmaster was allegedly shot dead by his sons over an agricultural land dispute in Dogran Malian on Thursday.
Sources said the deceased was asleep in his house when the accused, Faisal and Usman, opened fire on him. He died on the spot.
