TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 30: Political rivalry and old enmity between the Warraichs and Cheemas is reflecting on the Gojra tehsil municipal administration working.
A dispute between the two heavyweights over the allotment of offices for tehsil naib nazim had to be resolved by Toba DCO Nawazish Ali.
The Warraich group (which consists of ruling party MNA Amjad Warraich, MPA Bilal Warraich and former tehsil nazim Khalid Warraich) could not win the tehsil nazim slot but managed naib nazim’s office through Ahsan Akbar.
Cheema group (which comprises tehsil nazim Asad Zaman Cheema, former PML-N MNA Hamza, former PPP MNA Haji Ishaq and MPA Nadeem Gujjar who recently left PML-N and joined the ruling party) was forced by the Warraich group to allot an office to the naib nazim in front of the offices of tehsil nazim Asad Cheema.
The matter was brought to the notice of district nazim Chaudry Abdul Sattar who sent DCO Nawazish Ali to Gojra who held meetings with leaders of both the groups but they stuck to their guns.
Later some notables of the town met the DCO and told him that more than a dozen people had already been killed due to enmity between the two groups and the daily visit of the Warraichs to the offices of the tehsil naib nazim might lead to another fight.
The DCO later managed to convince the rivals, as the Warraich group was allotted an office for Akbar in TMA building, some 100 yards away from tehsil nazim’s office.
Earlier last month a case was registered against a gunmen of Asad Cheema on the charge of threatening with dire consequences the tehsil municipal taxation officer for entertaining MPA Bilal Warraich.
STRIKE: The workers of six brick kilns of Gojra tehsil are on a strike for the last two days to press the owners for acceptance of their demands.
District council minority member and Bhatta Mazdoor Union leader Ayub Anjum said here on Monday at a press conference that the owners of the kilns situated at Janiwala, Chak 292-JB, Chak 299-JB, Chak 280-JB and Chak 281-JB were paying less than Rs290, the government’s fixed labour for production of 1,000 kutcha bricks, to the workers, which was unfair.
He said the strike would continue till the acceptance of the workers’ demands. He demanded the district administration to eliminate the forced labour from kilns, and to give the right to social security benefit to the workers.
HUNGER STRIKE: PPP workers will observe hunger strike on Tuesday (today) to condemn the alleged character assassination of Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari through the media.
District secretary-general Chaudhry Saeed Akhtar said here on Monday that all party office-bearers and ticket-holders would participate in the hunger strike camp to be set up in front of the district court complex.
RAPE: A 10-year-old girl was raped by a vagabond in Chak-383 JB, Allhar Pind, On Monday. Sadar police have arrested accused Shahbaz.
PEACE BODY: A unanimous code of conduct was adopted on Monday in the district peace committee meeting held with DPO Akhtar Laleka in chair.
Attended by ulema of all schools of thought, the meeting decided that no one would violate ban on use of loudspeakers while the Muharram processions would use licenced routes.
FIRED: District elementary education officer Ashraf Haral terminated from service six elementary teachers on Monday on the charge of absence from duty. They include, Abdul Rauf, Allah Ditta, Ali Akbar, Ijaz Mahmood, Muhammad Siyam and Abdul Jabbar.
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