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Fazl wants party candidates to be active in LG pollsMULTAN: Jamait Ulema-e-Islam-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has urged party candidates to actively take part in local government elections.Addressing the South Punjab Local Body Workers Convention here on Sunday, he said the JUI-F wanted to make Pakistan a true Islamic state according

By our correspondents
November 02, 2015
Fazl wants party candidates to be active in LG polls
MULTAN: Jamait Ulema-e-Islam-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has urged party candidates to actively take part in local government elections.Addressing the South Punjab Local Body Workers Convention here on Sunday, he said the JUI-F wanted to make Pakistan a true Islamic state according to the Constitution. He said the National Action Plan was in progress to eliminate terrorism from the country. He said they were loyal to the country and ready to render any sacrifice for its sovereignty. He said the Ummah was passing through a crucial time due to conspiracies of anti-Muslim elements and urged Muslims to ensure unity.

Haider Hoti demands tangible package for quake victims
By our correspondent
BISHAM: Awami National Party provincial president Amir Haider Hoti on Sunday demanded the KP and federal governments to announce a tangible compensation package for the earthquake victims.The ANP leader said Rs 200,000 amount being given by the government to the quake-hit people for reconstruction of each destroyed home was a joke.The ANP leader recalled his party-led government had announced Rs 400,000 for the calamity-hit people and set aside over Rs8 billion for the rehabilitation of the affected people.Haider Hoti said both federal and provincial governments should come forward to help the earthquake-hit people in Shangla.

Two bullet-riddled bodies found in Charsadda
By our correspondent
CHARSADDA: The bullet-riddled bodies of two persons were found in fields in the district on Sunday, sources said.The sources said that one Delawar Khan went missing from Matta Mughalkhel village three days ago and his body was found in a field. The police reached the spot and shifted the body to the hospital for autopsy. Meanwhile, a resident of Urmar in Peshawar identified as Mudassir Khan was also found killed in a field in Tarlandi village in Tangi area. The police shifted the body to the hospital for postmortem.Reacting to the killing, the residents of Matta Mughalkhel staged protest and blocked the road for some time. They demanded a strict action against the Station House Officer (SHO) Shabqadar Police Station Ali Jan Khan and Police Post In-charge Hikmat Shah for their failure to check crimes in the area.

PTI workers ransack Mayor Group’s
candidate office in Faisalabad
By our correspondent
FAISALABAD: The PTI workers allegedly ransacked an election office of Dr Maqbool Ahmad, a winning candidate of the Mayor Group in UC No-90. The PTI workers allegedly attacked and ransacked the office of Dr Maqbool after he defeated PTI candidate Mehmood Rehmani. The accused also beat his workers, who were present in the election office. Meanwhile, the Mayor Group workers staged a demonstration at Bismillah Chowk and demanded registration of a case against the PTI workers.

Swabi to have archaeological conservation lab
By our correspondent
PESHAWAR: Taking another initiative to protect and conserve the archaeological and heritage sites and precious antiquities, the Department of Archaeology and Museums Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has approved to establish an archaeological conservation laboratory in the historic Hund area in Swabi district. According to a communiqué, the establishment of a laboratory was the need of the hour which would greatly help in preserving valuable antiquities already on display at various museums and also those lying in reserve collection and excavation. The laboratory will be constructed at Hund, a historic place near Peshawar-Islamabab Motorway in Swabi. The laboratory will also extend services to archaeology departments of other provinces. There is neither scientific conservation laboratory in the province nor in Pakistan to protect, preserve and treat the precious antiquities.

PTI demands LG polls in Toba under army
By our correspondent
TOBA TEK SINGH: The PTI leaders have demanded the second phase of the local government elections scheduled for November 19 in the district under the supervision of army. Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, former district Nazim Ch Muhammad Ashfaq, PTI district organiser Ahmad Nawaz, former MNA Riaz Fatyana, former Gojra Tehsil Nazim Asad Zaman Cheema, Usman Hamza, Saeed Ahmad Saeedi, Khawar Sher Gadhi and Tahir Pervaiz Anjum alleged that the government was approving development schemes according to the wishes of the PML-N LG candidates in violation of the election code of conduct.

PML-N bags majority seats in Kasur
By our correspondent
KASUR: The ruling PML-N clinched majority of seats in the Saturday’s local government elections while the independents remained second and the PTI third, according to unofficial results. Of the 125 union councils, the PML-N secured 44 seats, independent candidates bagged 42 and the PTI won 34 seats. Two candidates of the PPP and one candidate of the PML-Q were also declared successful. The elections in one union council of Kot Radha Kishan was cancelled while the result of one union council was yet to be announced. Out of the 168 wards of the municipal committees, the PML-N bagged 96 councillor seats, independent candidates 42, the PTI 24 and the PML-Q won four seats.

Kiln workers continue strike
By our correspondent
TOBA TEK SINGH: The sit-in of brick kiln workers entered the third day here on Sunday. They were demanding implementation on an agreement reached between the kiln workers and owners on October 19 with the mediation of the district administration. District President Labour Qaumi Movement Muhammad Shabbir and labour leader Sajida demanded the kiln owners to pay the workers the agreed wage of Rs800 per 1,000 bricks. They vowed to continue the protest till the acceptance of their demand.

Bike rider run over in Haripur
By our correspondent
HARPIUR: A speeding van crushed to death a bike rider on the Grand Trunk Road near Dehdan village here on Sunday. Reports said Naseer Ahmad, a resident of Hassanabdal, was on his way to Kotnajibullah from Hassanabdal on a motorbike. A rashly driven Toyota Hiace hit the bike head on near Dehdan village, killing Naseer Ahmad on the spot.

Man killed after being hit by boulder
By our correspondent
DARGAI: A man was killed while his brother sustained injuries as a boulder hit them in Dargai tehsil of Malakand Agency on Sunday, sources said. The sources said that Ihsanullah and Ismail were on their way home when a boulder fell on them in Usmankhel village in Mian Killay area. Both of them were trapped under the boulder. The locals shifted the victims to the Civil Hospital in Dargai where Ismail succumbed to his injuries.

Mayor group claims winning 84 seats
By our correspondent
FAISALABAD: Mayor Group leader Ch Sher Ali has claimed that nominees of his group have won 84 seats out of 157 city council seats. In a statement here, he said that the defeat of his son Amir Sher Ali did not mean that the Mayor Group had been defeated. Ch Sher Ali said that he would announce his further line of action.

14 booked for snatching election result
By our correspondent
FAISALABAD: Tandlianwala police have registered a case against 14 people of Chak 426/GB on the charges of snatching result of a Tandlianwala polling station and torturing a polling officer. The case has been registered under Sections 395 of the PPC and 7-ATA. Raids are being conducted by police to arrest the accused.