GUJRANWALA, March 21: The Punjab teachers union has announced that it would launch a movement against the government if it failed to restore verses of Quran regarding Jehad in the intermediate syllabus.
Speaking at a meeting here on Sunday with union district president Chaudhry Abdul Khaliq Sundho in the chair, the teachers said that the verses had been deleted from the syllabus at the behest of the US administration.
They accused the government of trying to destroy the Islamic Ideology, which formed the basis of nationhood in Pakistan. They adopted a resolution unanimously, demanding that the verses of Quran should again be included in the syllabus.
They set April 15 as deadline for the purpose and announced that they would march toward Islamabad if their demand was not accepted. The meeting also demanded that services of all those teachers who had been hired on contract should be regularized and their salaries enhanced.
EXHIBITION: The industrial exhibition organized by the local chamber of commerce and industry is continuing at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal park here. The administration reserved Sunday only for the women.
Scores of women belonging to different walks of life including lawyers, doctors, teachers, councillors and engineers, visited the exhibition along with children and took keen interest in quality made in Gujranwala products.
Present on the stalls were the wives of manufacturers and traders who briefed the women visitors about the quality products. The women expressed the hope that the industrial exhibition would be helpful in attracting foreign buyers which would help increase foreign exchange.
MMA: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal is not backed by the government rather it has forced President Pervez Musharraf to fix the date of removing his uniform.
This was stated by MNA Maulana Qazi Hamidullah while speaking to traders in Garjakh on Sunday. JUI-F central secretary-general Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidari and other leaders also spoke on the occasion.
SUICIDE: A youth committed suicide after taking poisonous pills over the fear of his failure in the secondary school certificate annual examination here on Sunday. Nadim has been under stress since the finishing of his examinations.
