TOBA TEK SINGH: Speakers paid a tribute to the late Ghiasuddin Janbaz on Saturday for his meritorious services, saying the journalist-turned politician had spent several years of his life in jail in his struggle for the rights of the poor.

On the first death anniversary of Janbaz, a gathering was held on Saturday at his residence where PTI leader and former district nazim Chaudhry Ashfaq said irrespective of his political affiliation, the late Janbaz always raised voice for the masses.

Sunni Tehrik district emir Maulana Munim Husnain Siddiqi said Janbaz was the only politician who had united all the sects and political and religious parties under the banner of Majlis-i-Mufad-i-Aama and resolved issues like unnecessary razing of shops, loadshedding and drinking water shortage.

Maulana Mufti Abdul Manan said Janbaz’s health deteriorated when he observed hunger strike till death which continued for 72 hours to raise the issues of the citizens and consequently he fell seriously ill and died after a few months.

PPP leaders Amer Jabbar Chaudhry, Rana Khalid Mahmood and others also spoke.

District press club office-bearers will arrange Quran khwani for Ghiasuddin Janbaz on Sunday (today) while a seminar will also be held.

POLIO CASE: Health department officials have sent stool sample of another child, suspected to be carrying polio virus, to the National Institute of Health Laboratory Islamabad, for test.

An official said seven-month-old Saima Bibi, daughter of Ramzan Khan, a farmer of a Chak 742-GB, Pirmahal, had symptoms of polio.

Three children of Pirmahal tehsil had already been confirmed as polio cases and the polio emergency had been imposed in the area.

RAPE CASE: Rajana police registered a case against a kiln owner of Chak 285-GB on the charge of raping a kiln worker.

Complainant ‘A’ informed police that her daughter and son-in-law Akram were not allowed to go on a leave by the kiln owner.

When they insisted, the kiln owner and his accomplices tortured Akram and took away his wife to a room where the kiln owner raped her.

Meanwhile, Labour Qaumi Movement President Muhammad Shabbir warned that the kiln workers would stage a protest if the suspects were not arrested within 24 hours.