Public safety commission notified

Published October 22, 2002

SAHIWAL, Oct 21: The Punjab Home Department on Monday notified the names of members of the Sahiwal district public safety commission for a period of three years.

Independent members are: Muhammad Suleman, Syed Alamdar Husain and Begum Fehmida Sultana. The elected members, include Haji Tariq Husain, Muhammad Javed Zafar, Muhammad Ashraf and Ms Nabila Khan.

ONE KILLED: One person was killed and 18 others injured on Monday in an accident on the GT Road bypass near Chak 135/9-L.

A speeding bus (LXC-1233) going to Lahore from Multan overturned as a result of which 19 passengers sustained injuries. They were rushed to the Nishtar Hospital, Multan. One of the seriously injured, unidentified so far, died while being shifted to hospital.

Those injured, include Muhammad Humanyun (Renala Khurd), Javed, Babar, Imran (Multan), Shahid Iqbal (Haroonabad), Mazhar, Shahid Ali, Abdul Rehman, Afzal (Karachi) and Khurshid Iqbal (Muzaffargarh).

Grain Market police have registered a case.

MMA: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal will not accept any office less than the premiership in the coalition government.

This was stated by Punjab JI secretary-general Dr Azhar Iqbal Hassan while talking to newsmen here on Monday.

He said the MMA was against the formation of the national government because this would only serve as a tool to safeguard the US interests.

The MMA, he claimed, had emerged as a national party and enjoyed representation in all provinces, FATA and the Federal area.

He said the MMA would prefer to sit in the opposition if the national government was formed in the centre.

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