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DERA GHAZI KHAN, Jan 11: Differences have surfaced between the district council and the district administration with Naib Nazim Javed Khan Qaisrani turning down the orders of DCO regarding the provision of offices to the chairman of Public Safety Commission at the district council building.
Sources said DCO Saqib Aleem had ordered provision of four rooms of the district secretariat to the newly elected chairman and members of Public Safety Commission.
The Naib Nazim was of the view that the DCO was not the competent authority to allot rooms in the secretariat of district government.
It is worth mentioning that the chairman of PSC was elected with the backing of six out of 10 members of the commission last week. The chairman, Sajid Farid, is said to belong to an anti-Nazim group.
Talking to this reporter, the newly-elected chairman alleged that the district Nazim and his team were creating hurdles for him and the PSC. He said his election was valid, as the member were free to elect their chairman under Section 45 and 51 of the PSC rules.
The DCO told Dawn that validity of the election of the public safety commission chairman would be settled by the home department and not by the district government.
KHUSHALI BANK: Khushali Bank has disbursed loans worth Rs78 million among the poor people of Rajanpur and Dera Ghazi Khan since its inception on Aug 14, 2000.
Sources said Khushali Bank’s Dera Ghazi Khan branch had disbursed loans worth Rs48 million among 3,700 poor people who included 1,800 women. The Bank’s Rajanpur branch disbursed loans worth Rs15 million among 1,000 poor people including 400 women. As many as 700 poor people, including 300 women of Tibbi Qaisrani area of Taunsa Sharif Tehsil got Rs15 million in the shape of small loans.
IT: Multan Income Tax Commissioner Abdur Rehman Dogar visited the income tax offices in Dera and asked the employees concerned to gear up the recovery campaign for the third quarter which would end on March 31.
There are 3,000 taxpayers in Dera Ghazi Khan Tehsil.
KILLED: A man was killed while five others were injured in a fog-related accident on Indus Highway, some 30 kilometres south from here, on Saturday.
According to details, a Dera Ghazi Khan-bound wagon (No MNV 7092) collided head-on with a truck (No PRO 4092) coming from Taunsa Sharif because of poor visibility near Shah Saddar Din village.
As a result, all passengers of the wagon were injured. Ghulam Akbar succumbed to his injuries at the Dera Ghazi Khan District Headquarters Hospital while advocate Zubair Ahmad Ahmadani was shifted to Nishtar Hospital in Multan because of his critical condition.
The condition of Muhammad Aslam, Abdul Hafeez, Salim Khan and wagon driver Muhammad Saleem was stated to be out of danger at the DHQ hospital.
