FAISALABAD: Police claimed on Friday to have launched a campaign against gun-toting people moving in the city areas for security of high-profile people on luxury vehicles and arrested seven gunmen of two businessmen.

There is a trend in the city, as elsewhere, of industrialists and other high-profile people moving around with guards. The armed men in uniform and civvies move along with them.

A team of the Medina Town police detected two such vehicles and took seven gunmen into custody. Those arrested were hired by industrialist Sheikh Danish and another businessman, Shah Nawaz, reads the FIRs.

City Police Officer Sohail Chaudhry said no one would be allowed to move in city areas with weapons that panic the masses. He said the SHOs had been directed to take action against such elements without succumbing to any pressure.

UAF: The University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) administration will provide certified seeds of various crops to farmers from next Rabi season.

Chairing a meeting of the Academic Council, UAF Vice Chancellor Dr Muhammad Ashraf said difficult access to quality seed for farmers was causing a serious damage to the agriculture sector and it was a hindrance to reap benefit from our fertile land. He said the university had drawn up a plan to work on seed development that would increase productivity and alleviate poverty.

“We need to work hard to compete with the developed world in the segments of per-acre agricultural productivity and agro practices,” he said. Citing the example of Singapore, he said it lacked agricultural land and met its agricultural demand by growing produces at the roofs and buildings.

He urged the researchers to conduct demand-driven research work.

Published in Dawn, January 25th, 2020