Two friendskilled as bike hits pole

Published September 11, 2007

GUJRANWALA, Sept 10: Two friends were killed in a road accident on Sialkot Road near Nandipur canal bridge on Monday.

Reports reaching here said that Sarfraz (22) of Kot Ishaq and Luqman (22) of Ladheywala Warraich were on their way by a motorcycle. Near the canal bridge, their bike rammed into a roadside electric pole owing to high speed.

Resultantly, Luqman died instantly while Sarfraz succumbed to his injuries at the local DHQ Hospital. Bodies were handed over to their heirs after autopsy.

THREATENED: The cart men threatened to block the GT Road if the city district government and administrations of four towns and three tehsils did not withdraw the license fee imposed on them in their respective jurisdictions.

The cart men said the district council; Nandipur, Aroop, Khiali Shahpur, Qila Dedar Singh towns and Wazirabad, Kamoki and Naushera Virkan tehsils’ administrations had separately imposed license fee on them and contractors had started recovering Rs250 to Rs300 per annum fee from them which was an act of oppression.

They alleged that a contractor and his musclemen in Aroop town manhandled a cart man, Ashraf, when he refused to pay the license fee.

They demanded that administrations of towns and tehsils should be barred from recovering the license fee from them.

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