TOBA TEK SINGH, March 6: Eighteen district council members filed on Wednesday nomination papers for the four seats of the public safety commission with returning officer District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Akram Zaki.

Those filed papers were Ayub Anjum, Mian Naseer Ahmad, Saeed Jilani Tariq, Rafiq Randhawa, Farooq Hassan, Javed Akram, Rai Ziaullah Khan, Nadim Qasim, Malik Amjad Yaqub, Zahoorul Haq, Mumtaz Hussain, Mian Muhammad Shoaib, Rafiq Hameed, Mrs Shaheen Farooq, Mrs Nusrat Sultana, Miss Rizwana Bashir and Mrs Shamshad Akhtar.

As many as 117 district council members will elect four men and a woman for the eight-member commission on proportional representation basis. The voting will be held on March 9 at the district council hall.

SUCCUMBS TO WOUNDS: A woman succumbed to her wounds at the Kamalia Tehsil Headquarters Hospital on Wednesday. Tasleem Bibi was on her way in Chak No 716 GB four days ago when Ghulam Abbas of the same village attempted to rape her. The accused seriously injured her when she resisted.

She was taken to the THQ hospital where she died on Wednesday.

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