FAISALABAD, Dec 30: Following the threats by leaders of some religious parties, the management of a bank and a hotel decided on Tuesday to postpone a musical programme scheduled to be held on the New Year night.

Reports said a local bank had announced that it would arrange a musical programme and variety show on the New Year night in collaboration with a hotel.

However, the local leadership of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal had threatened that it would put up strong resistance by constituting a danda force to defeat the designs.

After the threats of the alliance activists, the police came into action and held meetings with the hotel management as well as organziers of the show. After lengthy discussion, the police succeeded in prevailing upon the organizers to postpone the show.

Meanwhile, the organizers have informed the invitees that the next date of the show would be announced later.

MMA District President Sardar Zafar Husain and others, including former MPA Malik Muhammad Din, Dr Javed Akhtar, Maulana Yousaf Anwar, Syed Yawar Husain Shamsi and Abdul Islam, had planned to sabotage the New Year night programmes. Thieves fire: Thieves opened fire at a PARCO patrol party when it attempted to nab them in Chak 196 JB on Monday night.

A PARCO team, headed by Security Officer Waqar Rasheed, found around a dozen men illegally getting oil from the pipeline. The thieves opened fire when challenged by PARCO team and escaped.

Area police registered the case against the unidentified men and took their oil tanker into custody.

Meanwhile, Nishatabad Police also registered a case against unknown men for stealing oil by cutting the main supply line of PARCO near Chak 7 JB.

SUICIDE: A jobless man committed suicide in Siddiq Nagar here on Tuesday.