SAHIWAL: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan will address a public rally in Sahiwal city on Jan 29.

PTI District President Faisal Jalal Dhakko told the media at party’s secretariat at Bhandari Chowk on Sunday that the public meeting would likely be held at Shaikh Zafar Ali Stadium.

Mr. Dhakko said the PTI had sought permission from the district government for the rally.

He said the party chairman will arrive by a chopper and he will be brought to the venue in a rally.

Ex-PTI MNA from Chic​h​awatni Rai Hasan Nawaz, Shaikh Muhammad Chohan, former MPA Rana Aftab and others were also present on the occasion.

Zafar, D.J. Wali Sons, who hails from Sahiwal, has claimed that it will be the biggest gathering in the history of the city.

ADDITIONAL CHARGE: Commissioner Babar Hayat has taken additional charge of chairman of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education.

The post has been lying vacant since the retirement of BISE chairman Dr. Anwar Ahmed on Nov 26. As a result around 300 Sahiwal board employees, including regular, contract and daily wagers, have not been able to draw their salaries.

Many board employees through their association have demanded appointment of a permanent chairman so that official work especially upcoming annual matriculation and intermediate examinations could be done smoothly. The commissioner has released salaries of all board employees.

Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association Divisional Senior Vice President Rao Ijaz told Dawn that many ‘paper setters’ did not receive payment for the last many months. He demanded that the commissioner look into the matter and make payments to more than 1,000 papers setters.

BOOKED: The Anti-Corruption Establishment on Sunday registered a case against a revenue department peon for allegedly receiving bribe worth Rs400,000 from a villager.

In 2015, Dera Rahim police had booked Muhammad Mansha, a resident of village 113/9-L, for an alleged murder attempt. Ghulam Murtaza, his fellow villager and a peon at revenue department, struck a bargain for quashment of the case. Mansha paid him Rs400,000 in four installments but Murtaza could not get the case quashed. On Mansha’s complaint, ACE has registered a case against the peon.

Published in Dawn, January 23rd, 2017