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GUJRANWALA, April 2: The Punjab Education Boards Employees Federation on Tuesday called off its protest strike till April 8 on the appeal of boards’ chairmen.
According to a report, boards’ chairmen assured the employees that their demand for an increase in salaries in accordance with new pay scales would be got approved by the provincial government if they called off their strike.
Following this assurance, federation president Khalid Niazi sent a message to union leaders of all boards to call off strike being started from Tuesday.
According to the employees, Azad Kashmir and federal education boards have been paying salaries to their employees according to new pay scales since December, 2001.
ELECTROCUTED: A boy was electrocuted in Baghbanpura here on Tuesday.
Irfan, 10, was switching on a washing machine when he received a shock. He died while being taken to hospital.
UPLIFT PROJECTS: The district government will get completed uplift projects at a cost of Rs30 million.
This was claimed by PML-J chief Hamid Nasir Chattha while speaking at a meeting here on Tuesday.
He said special committees had been established for resolving people’s problems.
SHOT DEAD: A landlord was shot dead by dacoits on resistance in Chattha village on Tuesday.
Four outlaws entered the house of Sardar Muhammad and held up the inmates at gunpoint. They shot dead the house owner when he put up resistance and escaped.
Alipur Chattha police have registered a case.
BAIL ACCEPTED: The bail application of the father of the Gujranwala city PPP president was accepted by the Lahore High Court on Tuesday.
PPP city president Khalid Humayun and his father, Muhammad Ishaq, were involved in the killing of one Shahzad, the son of vegetable market commission agents association president Muhammad Siddiq. They got an interim bail from the LHC.
The case was transferred to the Gujranwala district and sessions judge a few months ago. The sessions judge rejected their bail and sent them to jail. They again moved the district and sessions judge for bail, but their application was rejected.
The LHC accepted the bail application of Muhammad Ishaq and directed him to deposit a surety bond of Rs100,000.
HANDCUFFED: The banking court No. 1, Gujranwala, got handcuffed a loan defaulter and sent him to jail besides issuing a decree against two industrialists here on Tuesday.
Aslam Naqvi owed Rs80,000 to the Habib Bank’s Circular Road branch. The court issued a decree against Aqleem Tariq and Masood Alam. They owed Rs2 million to the HBL’s Bank Square branch. The court ordered that the loan should be recovered after auctioning their properties.
THREE DIE ON ROAD: Three people, including two rickshaw drivers, were killed in separate road accidents in and around the city on Tuesday.
Muhammad Fiaz of Sheikhupura Road was crossing the road when a wagon crushed him. He died on the spot.
A rickshaw driver, Karam Husain, was going to the Model Town market when a trailer hit his vehicle near the main chowk. He sustained critical injuries and died instantly.
Another rickshaw crew, Asif Awan, was killed when his vehicle overturned near Awan Chowk Bypass.
