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FAISALABAD, Jan 4: The anti-encroachment squad of the Lyallpur Town Administration on Wednesday removed the model house set up by the MQM activists on the lawns of the Clock Tower intersection. The known political party of Sindh had established a camp on the Clock Tower premises on the plea of collecting funds for quake survivors. All other camps had already been wound up.
After repeated complaints of the people, especially traders, the local administration removed the makeshift model house which was considered a slur on the historic place. It has asked the party activists to set up their camp office outside the Clock Tower premises.
JOURNALISTS’ MEETING: Faisalabad Union of Journalist will host a mega event of the meeting of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists’ Federal Executive Council in the last week of January.
Local union president Muhammad Yousaf, while presiding over a meeting held here to review the arrangements in this regard, on Wednesday, said the function was initially scheduled to be held in December but now it had been changed owing to some “unavoidable circumstances.”
ADULTERATION: District Coordination Officer Athar Husain Sial has said adulterated food articles will be burnt on open grounds of the Iqbal Park on Friday (tomorrow).
Presiding over a meeting here on Wednesday, the DCO said the adulterators were playing havoc with the lives of people and deserved no leniency or sympathy. The Anti-Adulteration Task Force should work hard to purge society of the malaise.
He said the task force performance would be monitored on a regular basis. Those showing good performance would be awarded with commendation certificates while action would be taken against the negligent officials.
He directed the DO (health) to change the members of the task force teams every fortnight to maintain efficiency and transparency in the drive. He asked the police officials to constitute a special team to accompany the anti-adulteration force.
The food inspectors were asked to use their powers for the betterment of society.
The DCO said cases against the people involved in adulteration would be properly pursued and culprits punished.
Sial said the health secretary had agreed to set up a Public Analyst Laboratory in Faisalabad. He directed the DO that he should oversee the laboratory project and forward a proposal to the secretary to assign the agriculture university laboratory the task of public analyst laboratory.
