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SIALKOT, April 10: A Pakistani youth was injured seriously in a landmine blast in a village of the Sialkot working boundary’s Shakargarh-Narowal sector here on Thursday.
According to official sources, Mohammad Attiq (24) was passing through the fields when he hit the landmine and lost his left foot. He was admitted to the CMH in critical condition.
Meanwhile, the Indian forces continued firing with light and heavy machine-guns at villages in the working boundary’s Chhumb Joriyan, Bajwat, Bajragarhi, Jammu, Saamba and Zafarwal-Shakargarh-Narowal sectors, damaging several empty cattle-sheds.
The sources added that the Pakistani security forces responded effectively, causing heavy losses to the enemy.
WHEAT PROCUREMENT: The Punjab government has fixed the wheat procurement target for the district at 110,000 tons, which will be enhanced with time, said DCO Zahid Saeed at a special meeting here.
Presiding over the meeting, district Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid directed the local food department authorities to evolve a strategy for procuring wheat directly from growers.
The official urged the growers to bring unadulterated wheat to the procurement centres. The food department official informed the participants that more than 300,000 gunny bags were available with the department before the fresh harvest. They said that every grower would be able to get 200 gunny bags each on the recommendation of a local councillor at the rate of Rs50 per bag.
However, the experts told the meeting that a bumper wheat crop was expected in both Sialkot and Narowal districts this season.
SKY-ROCKETING PRICES: With the new mango yield having reached the markets, the fruit is being sold at the rate of Rs100 per kilogram in the Sialkot city and cantonment, Daska, Bhopalwala, Sambrial, Ugoki, Begowala, Pasrur, Chawinda, Badiana, Shakargarh, Zafarwal, Baddomalhi and Narowal.
Best quality apples are being sold at the rate of Rs60 to 70 per kilogram, sugarcane pieces at Rs20 to 25 per kilogram, melons at Rs35 to 45 per kilogram. Lady fingers are being sold at the rate of Rs80 each per kilogram and pumpkins at Rs35 to 40 per kilogram.
People have urged the local government to take notice of the sky-rocketing prices of fruits and vegetables and adopt some effective measures to provide relief to them.
SENTENCED: Three persons were sentenced to death in separate murder cases.
Additional District & Sessions Judge Mujahid Mostaqee Ahmad awarded death sentence and a fine of Rs150,000 to Ashraf Masih, who had killed his wife Shamim Bibi and two nieces over a domestic dispute in the jurisdiction of Ugoki Police Station.
Additional District & Sessions Judge Jawadul Hasan awarded death sentence and a fine of Rs50,000 to Mubarik Ali and Naad Ali for killing one Asif over old enmity in Shahabpura, Daska city, on Oct 25, 1995.
Additional District & Sessions Judge Najamul Hassan awarded death sentence with a fine of Rs50,000 to a convict Mohammad Younas for abducting and killing a woman named Sumera and later burning the body on Aug 18, 2000, in Merajkay (Sabzpeer) village of Pasrur tehsil.
