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TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 18: Bandits on Monday drove away with district Nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq’s brother-in-law Mian Khalid Farooq’s car on Akalwala Road.
Reports revealed Farooq and his friend Muhammad Saeed were on their way to Chak 477-JB, Allowal village, when three bandits intercepted them at gunpoint. They manhandled them, snatched Rs14,000 in cash and drove away with the car (LOV-3100).
The district police was in search of the culprits till filing of this report.
DISTRICT NAZIM: Around 75,000 students will be admitted to various institutions in the district in the next academic career under ‘education for all’.
This was stated by district Nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq at a function at Government High School, Chak 256-GB on Monday.
He said the number of students in the district would touch 400,000. Institutions with higher number of students and teachers with good performance would be given cash prizes, he added.
He said maximum development projects would be completed with an expenditure of Rs350 million.
Meanwhile, the Nazim announced that the government would allot residential plots to only deserving dwellers in the villages and not landlords and farmers. He was addressing a gathering in Chak 289-JB.
MOURNED: The members of the local District Bar Association (DBA) on Monday mourned the death of DBA member Mian Muhammad Rafi’s mother.
Scores of lawyers attended his funeral prayer.
Meanwhile, DBA President Mian Shahid Iqbal, Punjab Bar Council member Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmad and lawyers felicitated Muzammal Khan on becoming the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) president.
