BAHAWALPUR: The Punjab government on Thursday reconstituted the board of governors (BoG) of the Bahawalpur Museum with Senator Saud Majeed as its chairman who replaced former PML-N MPA Sardar Jahanzeb Warren.

According to the public relations officer of the museum, the BoG has five members who are government officials besides seven others, including members of the parliament.

They are MNA Begum Parveen Masood Bhatti, MPAs Fauzia Ayub Qureshi and Shoaib Owaisi, ex-MPA Samiullah Chaudhry, former principal of the Government Sadiq College for Women, Safia Farogh, Dr Shahid Hasan Rizvi and Masood Sabir.

Five official members are Commissioner Saqib Zafar, Director Museum Zubair Rabbani, the director general of Archaeology Punjab, principal of the Government Sadiq Egerton College and deputy secretary of Department of Information and Culture, Lahore.

The tenure of the chairman and members of the BoG would be of three years. However, ex-MPA Sardar Jahanzeb Warren remained chairman of the BoG for about six years as the Punjab government had provided him with an opportunity to avail two terms of three years each, from 2009 to 2012 and then from November 2012 to November 2015.

Dawn learnt Mr Warren was deprived of his chairmanship after he started distancing himself from the PML-N in 2013 when he was denied a ticket by the party to the general contest from his old constituency of Ahmedpur East tehsil.

He attended a meeting of the opposition parties, chaired by PML-Q MNA Tariq Cheema, on Nov 14 to declare candidates of the opposition parties on reserved seats who were pitched against PML-N candidates.

Mr Warren said he had not dissociated himself from the PML-N but claimed he was against the land grabbers and the corrupt elements in his party.

DECANTING: The officials of Civil Defence during a crackdown on the sale points of decanting gas raided about 50 such shops in the district and claimed to have arrested 45 people for decanting gas illegally.

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2016