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GUJRANWALA, Nov 15: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said the rulers did not reinstate deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry because they were all corrupt and afraid of an independent judiciary.
Speaking at the district bar association, Khan criticised the government for not restoring the judiciary to its Nov 2 position despite a movement by lawyers, political workers and the civil society. He said that military dictator Pervez Musharraf destroyed the judicial system by imposing an emergency and sending all judges home who refused to obey him.
The PTI chief said the incumbent rulers feared that Mr Chaudhry would eliminate the National Reconciliation Order and send them to jail if he was restored. He criticised Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Husain and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman for supporting President Asif Ali Zardari on the judges issue.
Bar president Malik Shaukat Ali also spoke.
Later, Khan addressed the Wazirabad bar, a public meeting in Gakkhar and a traders’ meeting in Gujranwala.
GEPCO: Domestic consumers using more than 700 units will be given 36 per cent relief in power tariff, while those using 5-kilowatt load will be given 21 per cent to 24 per cent relief in tariff, an official said here on Saturday.
Speaking at a meeting at his office, Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco) Chief Executive Officer Rana Ashraf Zahid said that commercial consumers in category A-2 had been given 21 per cent to 28 per cent relief in tariff, industrial consumers in B-3 category 20 per cent to 30 per cent and farmers using more than 5-kilowatt load 10 per cent to 37 per cent. He said that power tariff had not been changed for those using 50 or less power units. He said that old slabs had been restored.
Zahid also said that Gepco had planned to generate 450-megawatt electricity from Nandipur Power Station, 525MW from Chichoki Malian and 150MW from Mahowala by 2009. He said that Gepco saved 42MW electricity and Rs220 million in one year by checking line losses.
BAILIFF: A bailiff recovered two people who were detained at the Garjakh Police Station for the last three days without registration of any case against them and produced them in the court.
Judge Iftikhar Hussain Shah summoned the station house officer concerned and the investigation officer on Monday after Sharifan moved the court against the illegal detention of her husband Liaquat and his friend Aslam.
The police tried to shift the detainees to another place when the bailiff raided the police station.
