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GUJRANWALA, Aug 29: As many as eight jewellery shops were reduced to ashes when a fire broke out in a shoes shop here on Tuesday due to short circuit. Reports said fire broke out in a shoe-making shop located on upper storey of a market, which engulfed the adjacent jewellery shops. People of the area and fire brigade reached the spot and extinguished the fire after two-hour long efforts.
Some shopkeepers sustained burn injuries while extinguishing the fire. The loss is being worked out.
EXECUTION: A local court on Tuesday issued death warrants for a convict who will be executed on Aug 31 (tomorrow). Reports said Muhammad Ashraf of Bhawani Das village had killed youth Nadim on offering resistance during a dacoity bid a few years ago. A sessions court had handed down death sentence to him. The LHC and the SC upheld decision of the lower court while the president had rejected his mercy appeal. resign: Over a dozen women medical officers of the divisional headquarters hospital tendered their resignations in protest against `change in duty and posting in other wards’ here on Tuesday.
Reports said women medical officers were feeling inconvenience during performing their duties owing to their transfer from the gynae ward to other wards. They tendered their resignation collectively and informed the DHQ administration.
However, they took back their resignations when medical superintendent Dr Javed Akhtar accepted their genuine demands, and assured them that their problems would be resolved.
STRIKE: Sanitary workers of Ghakkhar Town again went on strike on Tuesday in protest against the dismissal of their 26 colleagues by the Wazirabad Tehsil Municipal Administration.
The sanitary workers had gone on strike against the Wazirabad TMA for not regularising their services. They accused sanitary inspector Dr Nisar Ahmad of humiliating them over minor issues and deducting their three to four-day salaries after showing them absent from duty.
However, nazims and naib nazims of three union councils assured them that their genuine demands would be accepted, besides the transfer of the sanitary inspector.
Following this assurance, the sanitary workers called off their weeklong strike. But the TMA, following the local government directive, sacked 26 sanitary workers who had been working for the last 25 years and asked them to work as daily wagers. As a result, all sanitary workers of Ghakkhar Town went on strike.
