SIALKOT: The Sialkot Dry Port Trust (SDPT) will keep its transport services suspended until return of the normalcy in the country.
This was announced by SDPT Chairman Muhammad Ishaq Butt here on Sunday. He said the SDPT had suspended its transport services to avert the losses and damage to the containers carrying export and import consignments. He said transport vehicles and containers of the dry port were caught by local administration across Punjab and were placed on roads to stop the protesters from reaching Lahore and Islamabad.
The political unrest was causing daily loss of millions of rupees to the dry port, Mr Butt said.
He urged both the government and protesting parties to find a peaceful and amicable solution to the political crisis through talks and not through the protest.
JI: Jamaat-e-Islami naib emir Asadullah Bhutto has urged the government and the protesting political parties to find out an amicable solution to the prevailing unrest in the country.
Addressing the party workers here on Sunday, he stressed talks to find out a solution to the current crisis. He said the JI was playing its role to save democratic system in the country from being derailed. He said the protesters were causing loss to the national economy and harming the efforts made for economic and political stability.
Earlier, Sialkot JI emir Sheikh Attiqur Rehman gave a cheque worth Rs1.2million to Asadullah Bhutto for the internally displaced persons (IDPs).
On this occasion, Mr Bhutto asked the government to take steps for early completion of the operation, adding the whole nation was united against terrorism and wanted end to militancy and insurgency.
He lauded the IDPs for their sacrifices during this operation against militants, saying that the JI was aware of the problems being faced by the IDPs.
DIES: A woman succumbed to her burns at the Mayo Hospital Lahore on Sunday.
Naghma Bibi of village Ghalibkey-Bambaanwala, tehsil Daska, was set ablaze allegedly by her in-laws over a domestic issue five days back.
The victim’s father Rana Mashooq Ahmed, in the FIR registered with the Bambaanwala Police Station, said Naghma’s in-laws, including Rana Sajid and Shagufta Bibi, threw kerosene oil on her and set her on fire. She received serious burns on her whole body. She was shifted to the Daska Civil Hospital from where she was referred to Mayo Hospital Lahore.
Naghma’s younger sister Fakhra Bibi told the media the deceased’s body was brought to her village from Lahore where she was laid to rest. Police had not arrested any of the suspects.
Published in Dawn, August 11th, 2014