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MULTAN, Sept 29: Total amount of claims filed against financial deals of the ‘madad committee’ has crossed Rs115 million as some 372,142 members had submitted applications by Sunday evening.
Applications are being received at the office of the union council No. 33, Liaquatabad, which comprises the slums of Multan city on Old Shujabad Road. The mastermind behind the committee, Tahir Sharif, belongs to Liaquatabad Colony.
Meanwhile, the district administration has announced that the applications submitted by Monday evening will be entertained, while payments will be made in the light of the committee record. The people have been warned of legal action on filing bogus claims.
The administration has also requested the people who attacked and looted the committee office on Friday to return whatever valuables they had taken away so that the affected could be paid against their claims.
A committee has also been constituted with the district officer (cooperatives) as its head to devise modalities to entertain the claims.
Meanwhile, Punjab Liquidation Board chairman Brig Farooq Awan and the governor’s inspection team are reaching Multan on Monday to probe into the matter.
Madad committee patron Tahir Sharif was taken into custody by police on Thursday.
MMA: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal will launch a protest drive if the election commission does not stop the district Naib Nazim and city tehsil Nazim from doing electioneering.
Talking to newsmen here on Sunday, district MMA president Mufti Hidayatullah Pasruri alleged that Naib Nazim Malik Amer Dogar and city Nazim Mian Faisal Mukhtar Sheikh were involved in canvassing for their favourite candidates.
He said a complaint was lodged with the election commission against the two Nazimeen urging to bind them to follow the code of conduct.
PCGA: The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association has urged the Punjab government to defer the ban on the use of jute bags for the transportation of phutti (seed cotton) from farms to ginneries to the next year.
In a press statement here on Sunday, the newly-elected PCGA chairman, Khalid Rasheed Chaudhry, said most of growers and ginners were unaware of the ban, therefore, they were not fully prepared to shift either to cotton clothes or transport phutti to ginneries in open trolleys.
He said the procurement process of phutti would be kicked off from the coming week and the ban would create problems in the smooth transaction of silver fibre. He urged the government to introduce ban on the use of jute bags in cotton transportation gradually.
The banks should reschedule the working capital of ginneries which they (ginners) could not get readjusted owing to the financial crisis last year, he said.
The Trading Corporation of Pakistan, he said, should procure cotton across the country in cotton growing areas on the minimum fixed price of phutti. He said last year the TCP had played the role of a silent spectator in cotton market.
The Punjab government has banned the use of jute bags/cloths for the transportation of cotton to reduce the ratio of non-lint contents in silver fibre. A study revealed that the menace of contamination caused an annual loss of 1.4 billion dollars to the country in cotton trade.
