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SIALKOT, April 23: District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid has said any obstacles put by officials in the way of smooth provision of gunny bags to growers will not be tolerated.
Speaking to gathering here on Wednesday, the District Nazim exhorted the growers to bring their wheat produce direct to procurement centres.
He said the growers would be ensured their payment through banks on the next day of procurement as the role of middlemen was being eliminated.
Mr Javaid directed the Food Department officers to display instruction boards for the guidance of growers so that they did not have to face difficulties in selling their produce in procurement centres.
The district government has fixed the wheat procurement target of 780,000 bags at Rs300 per 40kg in the Sialkot district. For this purpose, nine wheat procurement centres have been set up in the district.
BURNT TO DEATH: Some unknown outlaw(s) killed an industrialist in his surgical forging unit by throwing acid on him in a nearby city area Charind late Tuesday night.
Ghulam Hyder was asleep when someone poured a gallon of acid on him. He sustained serious burn wounds and died on the spot.
Police have registered a case with no arrest.
In Bhopalwala (Daska), local sports factory’s worker Hafiz Imran was murdered with a sharp-edged weapon by unidentified men on Tuesday.
Sambrial police have registered a case.
DIES: The Daska-based MPA, Chaudhry Mumtaz Ali’s father, Chaudhry Abdul Rashid died after a protracted illness here on Wednesday. He was 70.
He was laid to rest in his native graveyard at Daska in the presence of hundreds of mourners.
Qul will be held at his residence on College Road, Daska, at 8.30 am on Thursday (today).
THREE GET DEATH: Local courts on Wednesday handed down death sentence to three convicts and fined heavily in murder cases.
Additional district & sessions judge Najamul Hassan awarded death sentence with a fine of Rs50,000 each to Naseer Ahmad and Nadeem Akhtar for killing Hafiz Tariq in Pakka Garha over an old enmity.
In another murder case, additional district & sessions judge Jawadul Hassan awarded death sentence and fined Rs50,000 to a convict, Khalid.
