TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 15: Police baton-charged youngsters in Teku Park and on Kamalia and Jhang roads for ‘pestering’ women and girls on Thursday night who were out to celebrate Independence Day.

The police also took into custody over a dozen people and impounded 150 motorcycles for being run without silencer, and for speed violation and life-threatening stunts.

Dozens of motorcyclists were injured because of speed violations or acrobatics. Motorcycles without silencers created deafening noise causing troubles for patients.

Groups of children and teenagers kept the Independence Day celebration ‘momentum’ through honking horns imported from China.

MORE SEATS: Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) MPA Joel Amer Sahutra has demanded the representation of the Christians in the Senate besides more minority seats in the provincial and national assemblies.

Mr Sahutra told a press conference that under the Bhurban agreement, PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan People’s Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari were bound to give representation to the minorities in the Senate besides raising the seats in the assemblies. He said both the coalition partners should fulfill their promise.

He alleged in the chief minister's Food Stamp Scheme (FSS), religious minorities were being ignored.

He said the chief minister had said that every minority MPA would recommend as many FSS recipients as other general MPAs.

He added he had visited local Christians and obtained information about the filing of FSS forms to the officials.