BAHAWALPUR: Police will set up rehabilitation centres for addicts at all district headquarters in the Bahawalpur Range.

This was stated by Regional Police Officer Sadiq Ali Dogar while opening the first free rehabilitation centre at the District Police Lines, Bahawalpur on Tuesday. The RPO said other police regions across the country also should follow suit to ensure a drug-free society.

Dogar said the Punjab health department and the Bahawalpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) had assured cooperation with the police department to run these centres and provide medicines for the addicts.

He said the addicts after their recovery and rehabilitation would be imparted free driving training so that they could become useful citizens and earn their livelihood by adopting driving profession in public and private sectors.

URIALS: The Punjab Wildlife Department has constituted a two-member committee to probe the mortality of five urials at the Bahawalpur Zoo.

The committee has been set up on the order of Punjab Secretary for Wildlife and Fisheries retired Capt Zafar Iqbal.

According to South Punjab Wildlife Director-General Anwar Maan, the committee would be headed by Sajjad Husain, deputy director wildlife, Salt Range, Chakwal and Muhammad Rizwan Khan, vet officer, Lahore zoo, is its member. The committee has been directed to submit its report within a week.

BODY FOUND: Rescuers claimed on Tuesday to have recovered the dead body of Ammar, 6, who drowned in the Sutlej river two days ago.

The boy, a pillion rider at a motorcycle, fell into the river when two motorcycles collided while crossing the river through a makeshift boat bridge at Miani Pattan near Dera Bakha here.

The dead body was sent to his home at Bahawalgarh village in Lodhran’s Kahrore Pucca tehsil.

Published in Dawn, September 7th, 2022