BAHAWALPUR, June 6: Lawyers observed partial strike on Friday against the police manhandling of the members of the Punjab Assembly in Lahore.
They attended courts till 10am after which they observed strike. Their strike created hardships for their clients.
It is learnt that LHCBA’s Bahawalpur chief Malik Nazar Muhammad went to Islamabad on Thursday to meet President Gen Pervez Musharraf as member of a lawyers’ delegation.
However, before his departure, he had directed the Bar members to boycott the courts on Friday.
Erosion: A number of villages in Uch Sharif are threatened with the erosion of the river Chenab which is in high spate nowadays.
Flood in river Chenab near Panjnad headworks is threatening Ghafoorabad, Chaka Nowala, Beat Bhutto, Machi and Hayat Machi. It is reported that standing crops on a vast area have been damaged and villagers have moved to safer places with their livestock and belongings.
AGRI COLLEGE: An agriculture college will be set up here.
This was stated by Islamia University vice-chancellor Prof Dr Munir Akhtar at a seminar on problems and prospects in the industrial investment in Bahawalpur organized by the department of management sciences (DMS) on Thursday.
Prof Munir said PC-1 of the project has been forwarded to the government. He expressed the hope that the college would provide an opportunity for development of agriculture in Bahawalpur, particularly the vast desert of Cholistan.
RESOLUTIONS: The Jamaat-i-Islami passed a number of resolutions against the government in different mosques of the city during the Friday congregations.
The resolutions bitterly criticized the government for its failure to check deteriorating law and order situation, price-hike, unemployment and obscenity.
They said an army of educated youths were running from pillar to post to get jobs while the government was patronizing video and cable networks.
RESULTS: Islamia University on Friday announced the results of MA comprehensive/composite second annual examinations, 2002.
Out of 195 candidates, 90 weredeclared successful showing a pass percentage of 46.