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MULTAN, Dec 5: The police should step up security measures in the wake of deteriorating law and order situation in the district.
This was stated by zila Nazim Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a meeting with district police officer Ahmad Raza Tahir and CIA SP Javed Shah here on Wednesday.
He directed the district police officer to make police patrolling effective in curbing the growing incidents of crime in the district. He said the police should also seek citizens’ help in this regard.
He said that strict security measures should be adopted along the routes of processions on the martyrdom day of Hazrat Ali (AS).
It may be mentioned that several incidents of robbery have been reported in the city during the last week.
On Nov 29, three bandits deprived mill workers of Rs3 million in Hassan Arcade near the Cantonment area.
A man and a woman were also shot dead in Muzaffarabad Colony on the same day.
Two dacoits relieved cloth merchant Muhammad Shafiq of Rs2.6 million in the Timber Market on Dec 4. Later, they managed to escape after injuring another shopkeeper on resistance.
In another incident on the same day, six dacoits looted cash and gold worth Rs200,000 from the house of district council member Sherish Khan in Shah Rukne Alam Colony.
So far the police could not track down any culprit.
CORRUPTION: Employees of the Multan district elementary education are concealing the evidence of corruption against its former officers.
This was alleged by office bearers of SES teachers association in a press release issued here on Wednesday.
DPI Schools, Punjab, had constituted a committee to conduct an inquiry against former Multan deputy director (schools) Aqeedat Hussain. But, the committee could not carry out the task as the DEO elementary office did not provide the required documents.
SES members said they would seek the help of the Anti-Corruption Establishment if the inquiry did not base on army survey reports.
COTTON OUTPUT: The Punjab cotton production is 14 per cent short this year, reveals a fortnightly report of the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association.
The output figure till Dec 1, 2001, was computed at 4.719 million bales as against last year’s 5.491 million bales.
As for Sindh, the cotton output has registered an increase of 6.22 per cent compared to the last year. Last year the crop size was estimated at 1.499 million bales which is now assessed at 1.592 million bales. — Nouman
