SIALKOT, Nov 28: Six houses and paddy crops were damaged by Indian firing in border village Thatti Kalan of the Sialkot working boundary’s Sucheetgarh sector on Wednesday.
According to official sources, Indian security forces continued intensified firing on border villages in Chhumb, Joriyaan, Bajwat, Sucheetgarh and Shakargarh sectors, disrupting harvesting of the paddy. No causality was reported.
The sources said the Chenab Rangers thwarted another major Indian attempt of fencing in the Shakargarh sector late Tuesday night. Firing between the Chenab Rangers and Indian troops was continued till the filing of this report in the evening.
NO HEADMISTRESS: The Government Girls High School, Goindkey, of Daska tehsil has been running without headmistress for the last 13 years.
This was stated by Goindkey union council Nazim Chaudhry Fawad Ghani while talking to newsmen here.
Expressing concern over the negligence of the education authorities concerned, the Nazim said the school was upgraded in 1988; since then no headmistress had ever been appointed there. He said some 23 posts of staff members were sanctioned, but only nine teachers had been teaching in the school.
He urged the district government to take steps for an early solution to the problem.
Meanwhile, only five teachers have been teaching in the Govt Girls High School, Phookaliyan.
Sialkot district education officer (secondary) Muhammad Yousaf told newsmen that due to a ban on fresh recruitments, they were unable to fill the vacant posts.
Sialkot district Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid had announced some two months back that as many as 2,500 teachers would be recruited, but no practical step has so far been taken in this regard.
RUSH IN MARKETS: Rush in local markets is hardly noticeable this year ahead of Eid.
Wholesalers and retailers are facing an unusually low shopping activity. Shopkeepers hope the activity will pick up by the middle of Ramazan.
Industry sources and wholesale dealers, on the other hand, attribute the slump to current war. Absence of buyers will slash their gains, they fear.
‘The downturn in spending can push the economy closer to recession,’ they apprehend.
Wholesaler Abdul Majeed told this correspondent that the retailers are already focusing on a cut in their orders keeping in view the decreasing trend. ‘‘They are looking to promote inventory they already have in hand,’’ he states.
The sale of imported and smuggled garments has also met the same treatment at the hands of buyers.