FAISALABAD City News

Millers to stage sit-in in Faisalabad on 5th
From Our Correspondent
FAISALABAD: After failure of talks with the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) regarding reduction in loadshedding duration, representatives of the Industry and Powerloom Owners Association have announced staging a sit-in at Chowk Abdullahpur on May 5.
The powerloom owners said that the millers and their workers would take part in the sit-in and vowed to continue their protest till the acceptance of their demands, which included maximum four-hour daily loadshedding. During the PPP regime, the loadshedding duration was six hours, but now the PML-N government had increased the duration to 10 hours, they added.
TWO KILLED ON ROAD: Two people were killed in separate road accidents here on Thursday.
In the first accident, Safdar Ali fell from a bus near Jamia Chishtia on Sargodha Road. As a result, he died on the spot. In the second incident, Niaz Ahmad was on his way when he fell from his donkey-cart at Jhal Khannuana. As a result, he was injured. He was shifted to the Civil Hospital where he died.
OBITUARY: Sajjad Ahmad, brother of Jang bureau chief Chaudhry Shahbaz Ahmad, died after a protracted illness here.
He was laid to rest in a local graveyard. Quran Khawani for the departed soul will be held at 8:30am at Ravi Park, Satiana Road, today.