TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 7: District Nazim Chaudhry Abdul Sattar has accused his successor Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq of adopting wrong policies regarding education department.
Speaking to a gathering at Chak 299-JB on Tuesday, he alleged that Chaudhry Ashfaq unlawfully collected fees from students of government educational institutions to recruit contract lecturers and school teachers in the district.
With the collected amount, he alleged, the former district nazim recruited lecturers paying only Rs2,000 per month to them and school teachers for only Rs1,200 per month.
He said the policy not only put an extra burden on the poor parents but also created inferiority complex among the recruited lecturers and teachers by giving them nominal salaries.
He also claimed the amount collected from the students was much more than the total salaries paid to the teachers and nobody knew about the remaining amount.
He said during his tenure strict merit would be implemented while recruiting teachers against vacant posts.
MPA Azhar Nadeem, former MPA Ihsanul Haq Gujjar, Gojra Tehsil Nazim Chaudhry Asad Zaman Cheema and district Baitul Maal committee chairman Mian Nasir Iqbal were also present on the occasion.
ARRESTED: Police claimed to have arrested a member of a gang allegedly involved in highway robberies on Monday night.
DPO Akhtar Laleka told journalists on Tuesday that the arrested accused, Nasir Abbas alias Nasri, was an accomplice of Nasir Kamalana who was recently killed in an encounter with Multan police.
He claimed that the accused was involved in many heinous crimes committed in Khanewal, Toba Tek Singh and Jhang districts, and dozens of dacoity cases had been registered against him.
RALLY: Political parties organized a joint rally at Gojra on Tuesday to condemn the blasphemous cartoons published by some western newspapers.
The rally was led by PML-N leader Mujahid Noorpuri, former PPP MNA Haji Muhammad Ishaq, PML-Q’s Shahid Hussain Samra, Jamaat-i-Islami leader Qari Rehmatullah Arshad, union council nazim Arshad Noori and Anjuman Ahli Sunnah chief Pir Sarfrazul Hasan.
Meanwhile, district bar association members observed a strike to condemn the cartoons.