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SIALKOT, Nov 29: The Chenab Rangers foiled another major Indian attempt to fence the border near Shakargarh sector of Sialkot working boundary late on Wednesday night.
Official sources said that the Indian forces continued on Thursday intensified firing on Chumb, Joriyan, Bajwat, Sucheetgarh, Charwa, Jammu and Shakargarh, badly disrupting the paddy harvesting.
ZAKAT BODIES: The Sialkot Tehsil Council members strongly criticized the performance of the Zakat committees during a special meeting here on Thursday.
Tehsil Naib Nazim Chaudhry Mahmood Ali Warriach presided over the meeting.
Opposition leader Imtiaz Ahmad Bhalli informed the meeting that all Zakat committees in the district, constituted by the administration, have miserably failed to provide Zakat to the deserving people.
Other members demanded a probe into the Zakat committees affairs. They urged the government to transfer the funds of Zakat committees to the union councils and empower the union councils members to distribute funds among the deserving people.
The house also passed a resolution in this regard.
SEMINAR: Participants in a seminar here on Thursday expressed grave concern over the rising ratio of eye diseases among the school children.
They urged the government to restart the school health services programme.
The seminar on eye sight problems among the students and the preventive measures, was organized at Fatehgarh School, Sialkot city.
Speaking on the occasion, eye specialist Dr Muhammad Akram said that unawareness, unnecessary watching of television and videos and lack of the annual medical check up in the schools were the main causes of the rising ratio of eye diseases among the students.
Other speakers said that the school health services programme would be helpful in controlling the rising eye diseases among the students.
FOUND DEAD: Two men were found dead from separate areas of the district during the last 24 hours.
An unidentified youth was found slaughtered from Nazir Colony of Daska city on Thursday morning.
Some passers-by spotted the body lying in fields and informed police.
Daska City police were investigating.
Labourer Sardar Khan was shot dead in New Miyanapura locality of Sialkot city late on Wednesday night.
He was sleeping in his hut with his family, when some armed men opened fire, killing him on the spot.
Police registered a case, with no arrest.
KIDNAPPED: Two girls were kidnapped from separate localities of Daska during the last 24 hours.
In Model Town, Abbas and Safdar forcibly took away a 12-year-old girl in a car.
The girl was going to a private tuition centre.
City Daska police have registered a case, with no arrest.
In Satrah village, Muhammad Nawaz, with the help of his armed accomplices, kidnapped ‘S’. Satrah police registered a case with no arrest.
TEXTBOOKS: Parents and students have expressed grave concern over the increase in the prices of textbooks published by the Punjab Textbook Board before the beginning of the new academic year.
The Punjab Textbook Board has reportedly increased the prices of its textbooks for classes VI to X by 15 to 20 per cent.
