SAHIWAL: As many as 3,800 shopkeepers will be mobilised through staff of the Local Government and Community Development Department to have themselves registered under the Ehsaas Rashan initiative.

The campaign has been launched to register 2,900 rural and 960 urban shopkeepers who will provide subsidised grocery to the eligible beneficiaries having less than Rs31,000 monthly income.

Deputy Commissioner Wajid Ali Shah told Dawn that 70 union council secretaries had been asked to mobilise shopkeepers for their registration. He said in case a shopkeeper did not have the android mobile phone but wanted to register, it’s the duty of the UC secretary to ensure his registration.

Okasha Rasool, deputy director, LG&CD, told Dawn that the task would be completed within a week. He said the district government had appointed officials to daily get the data of shopkeepers’ registration.

NARCOTICS: A team of the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), Multan, on Friday raided a truck and recovered 808 kilogramme hash and 261kg opium near Harappa Bypass.

The ANF officials arrested Ramzan, Sarfraz and Israr Khan who had concealed the drugs in specially designed LPG gas cylinders. The officials confiscated the truck and the gas cylinders which contained 700 packets of drugs being transported from Quetta to various parts of Punjab.

RAPE: A doctor allegedly raped a woman at his clinic-cum-residence near Pull Bazaar on Thursday evening.

The city police registered a case against the suspect under section 376 of PPC on the compliant of the woman’s husband.

The FIR said the woman was raped when she brought her ill child to the private clinic. The doctor offered job to the woman as a maid in his house and asked her to clean the place where he raped her.

The woman told police that the doctor carried a surgical knife and threatened to kill her.

Published in Dawn, January 1st, 2022