SAHIWAL: Ghala Mandi police have registered a case against 40 farmers belonging to the Kisan Board and a few activists of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf for disrupting traffic at national highway during protests against exorbitant electricity bills at View Hotel and in front of Mepco office on old GT Road on Tuesday.

The case was registered under 16 Maintenance of Public Order and different sections of Pakistan Penal Code.

Reports said Kisan Board - a farmers’ wing of Jamaat-i-Islami - had given a protest call against the high cost of electricity bills and fuel charges. Hundreds of farmers on tractors, motorcycles, and cars blocked Lahore-Multan Motorway near View Hotel and later staged a protest in front of the Mepco office.

The protest was led by divisional president Kisan Board Muhammad Saeed, Mian Sajid Nasir, Rana Aneesur Rehman and PTI activists from surrounding villages. The case was registered on the complaint of Ghala Mandi Police SI Bashir Ahmed.

HONOUR KILLING: A youth allegedly hanged his sister to death in the name of honour at village 58/GD on Tuesday night.

Bahadur Shah police said Muhammad Javed suspected that his sister Sumera Bibi had loose morals and he off and on admonished her. On Tuesday night, Javed allegedly hanged her with a rope.

SCHOLARSHIPS: As many as 126 male and female students of public sector colleges of the Sahiwal division on Wednesday received Rahamtul Lil Alameen merit scholarship cheques from the Punjab government.

The cheques were distributed among students at a ceremony held at Government College for Women.

Director (Colleges) Masood Faridi told this correspondent that 14 students also received prize cheques for winning provincial essay writing and speech competition in 2018.

The college also hosted an exhibition of the handwritten Holy Quran.

A 41-foot long and 8-foot wide Holy Quran was written by Imtiaz Shah Noorani. Visitors and students evinced keen interest in the the handwritten Holy Quran.

Published in Dawn, August 25th, 2022