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GUJRANWALA, Oct 16: The Christian community donated flour, dry milk, sugar, blankets, warm clothes and 150 bags of blood for the quake-hit people on Sunday.
Many truckloads of relief goods were sent to Azad Kashmir.
Christian Joint Committee chairman Peter John said it was our religious and moral duty to provide help to the quake-hit people without any delay.
A spokesman for the Joint Christian Committee, Nelson Jiwain Mall, said the blocked roads and rain in the affected areas were creating problems in supplying relief goods. He requested the Christians to keep fast.
MOTORWAY POLICE: The National Highway and Motorway Police have failed to combat incidents of dacoity and robbery and fatal accidents on the GT Road.
At a meeting held here on Sunday, representatives of various citizen councils and associations said about a dozen people, including four women and children, were crushed to death by speeding vehicles on the GT Road in Ghakkhar Town, Eminabad and Kamoki during the last two months, but the motorway police had failed to check overspeeding.
They said another cause of rising road accidents was wrong U-turns constructed by the National Highway Authority with the consent of the motorway police. They said the motorway police had also failed to check vehicles and passengers at bus stops. As a result of which the dacoity incidents had increased.
The meeting suggested that patrol posts should be set up on the GT Road to search vehicles particularly at night. It demanded the inspector general of motorway police to take steps to ensure life safety to passengers.
