TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 16: Farmers convention has passed a resolution demanding of the government to start construction of Kalabagh Dam at the earliest to save the future of cultivators who were facing acute water shortage these days.

The convention was held at the district council lawns here on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion, district Nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq assured the participants that strict action would be taken against hoarders who were involved in black marketing of fertilizers.

He said water thieves would not be spared as well. The district Nazim said Toba Tek Singh had been included in the list of 16 districts where 'grow more wheat campaign' had been launched.

The convention was also addressed by growers' representatives Chaudhry Muhammad Latif, Mian Saeed and Arif Zahid, the Faisalabad Agriculture University and Ayub Research Institute scientists and experts Dr Sher Muhammad, Dr Rai Niaz Ahmad Mansab, Prof Muhammad Aslam and agriculture department EDO Mian Shafiq Muhammad.

CASE: The city police on Thursday registered a case against Faheem Khan and five accomplices for forcing a youth, Waseem, to drink poisonous liquor causing his death.

LOOTED: Dacoits looted a fertilizer dealer near the DHQ Hospital here on Thursday. Abbas was on his way when he was intercepted by three motorcyclists who snatched Rs45,500 in cash from him and escaped. In another incident, three dacoits shot at a security guard, Javed Iqbal, on Shorkot Road on Wednesday night.