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SIALKOT, March 4: District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Zafar Hussain has ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of POs Azam alias Chitta and Akbar alias Pappu in an encounter with Sialkot police.
Local civil judge Asif Mumtaz Cheema has been appointed the inquiry officer.
The POs were killed by Saddar police in an encounter near Syedanwali village on Feb 14.
FARMERS’ PREDICAMENT: Hundreds of sugarcane growers are facing financial difficulties because of their inability to supply sugar cane to the Pasrur Sugar Mill, which has been closed for the last six days due to “technical faults”.
Sialkot Anjuman-i-Kashtkaran district president Syed Iqbal Shah made this statement while talking to newsmen here. He said that poor growers were forced to keep the crop in the open in rainy weather.
A spokesman for Pasrur sugar mill’s management said the technical faults were being traced out and the sugar mills would resume working within the next couple of days.
ANTI-POLIO DRIVE: The health department started a three-day anti-polio campaign in Sialkot and Narowal districts here on Tuesday.
According to a press release issued by the EDO (health), 553,549 children between the ages of five and seven in Sialkot district would be given anti-polio vaccine by health department’s 1,116 mobile teams under the supervision of 19 zonal supervisors till March 6.
In Narowal district, more than 286,000 children from five to seven years of age would be given anti-polio vaccine by health department’s 655 mobile teams.
Meanwhile, a large number of people from all walks of life participated in walks held by the health department in Sialkot and Zafarwal to create awareness about polio.
SPECIAL GRANT: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has approved a special grant of Rs100 million for restoration of Daska city’s decades old sewerage system.
This was stated by a Daska-based MPA, Chaudhry Mumtaz Ali, while talking to newsmen here. He said that the chief minister had also approved Rs10 million for completion of various development schemes in PP-130 (Daska).
The MPA from PP-131 (Daska), Mohammad Rizwan, told newsmen that Siranwali in his constituency would be made a model village, while Rs8.2 million would be spent on various development schemes in his constituency.
Sambrial-based MPA Chaudhry Azeem Noori Ghuman said that the provincial government had also approved a grant of Rs5 million for provision of Sui Gas to Bhopalwala.
INDIAN FIRING: A goat was killed while three houses and several empty cattle-sheds were damaged by the Indian forces, who continued firing with light and heavy machine guns at Pakistani border villages in both Sialkot and Narowal districts in Sialkot working boundary’s Chhumb Joriyaan, Bajwat, Chaprar, Jammu, Akhnoor, Saamba and Zafarwal-Shakargarh-Narowal sectors.
According to official sources, Pakistani security forces responded effectively and caused heavy loss to the enemy.
RAPISTS JAILED: After completing a seven-day judicial remand, Shahnaz, Asad, Qadeer and Khalil were sent to the district jail by Sialkot civil judge Mohammad Inayat Gondal on charges of gang-raping two married women and committing a dacoity in the neighbouring village of Bahu Bhatti (Muradpur) about two weeks ago.
