SIALKOT, April 28: The supply of electricity to 85 villages in the Sialkot working boundary’s Bajwat sector has been suspended for the last three months.

The affected people on Sunday visited the local Press Club and told newsmen that prolonged power suspension had made their lives miserable.

Villagers said the electrical polls and main supply lines in their areas were badly damaged by Indian shelling about three months ago.

Since then the Wapda authorities had taken no pain in repairing or replacing the damaged polls, they added.

BANNED: District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid has imposed a ban on the sowing, selling and buying of two banned paddy varieties Kashmira 386 and Malta with immediate effect in the Sialkot district.

The district government on Sunday also banned the sowing of paddy crop before May 20 throughout the district.

INDIAN FIRING: The harvesting of seasonal crops on Sunday remained suspended due to Indian shelling on villages in Chhumb Joriyaan (Gujrat), Bajwat, Charwa, Sucheetgarh, Harpal, Chaprar, Jammu, Akhnoor, Saamba and Skakargarh-Narowal sectors of the Sialkot working boundary.

Sources said Chenab Rangers had thwarted two more major Indian attempts to fence near the working boundary’s Jammu and Akhnoor-Saamba sectors, destroying a big enemy’s ammunition van and injuring its three armymen.

Youth gunned down: A youth was shot dead by dacoits on resistance on the banks of the Upper Chenab Canal near Fateh Bhinder village, Bambanwala, in Daska tehsil late on Saturday night.

A pickup was intercepted by four armed men on the banks of the UC canal. The interceptors started looting its passengers. When Masnoor of Maanpur village resisted, the dacoits shot at and injured him seriously and fled while firing in the air. The injured was taken to the Mayo Hospital, Lahore, where he died.

On Sunday, two armed men forced their entry into the house of a lawyer, Karamat Ali, in Hajipura, Daska city, and fled after looting cash, gold ornaments and valuables worth Rs300,000.