FAISALABAD City News

‘Power abuse’ by FWMC acting MD

From Our Correspondent

FAISALABAD: Faisalabad Waste Management Company (FWMC) General Manager Operations Amad Gill, who is on three-month probation, has started sacking officials without taking the Board of Directors (BoD) into confidence after being given additional charge of the managing director, The News learnt here.

Sources said that Amad Gill had been given additional charge of the post by the FWMC chairman. They claimed that the acting MD had sacked FWMC Secretary Aurangzeb Shami, Transport Manager Zafar Dogar, staff workshop purchaser Irfan Wazir, driver Malik Zahid and photographer Ali Imran without approval of the BoD during the last some days.

When contacted, FWMC Board of Directors member MPA Faqir Hussain said that Amad Gill was not competent to recruit or sack the staff because his services had not been confirmed even as the GM Operations. He said that a meeting of the BoD would be convened shortly to take action against the acting MD.

Another BoD member, Khalid Hussaini, who is also EDO Municipal Services, maintained that Amad Gill was violating the FWMC rules by sacking the employees.

When contacted, FWMC spokesman Aiza Butt claimed that the acting managing director took the decisions for betterment of the company.

 

Three shot dead in Faisalabad incidents

From Our Correspondent

FAISALABAD: Three people were shot dead in different incidents here on Wednesday.

In the first incident, Hamza along with other boys was playing cricket in a street outside his house at D-Type Colony when Amjad and others allegedly shot him dead over a minor issue.

Meanwhile, the relatives and neighbours of Hamza besieged the house of the accused and pelted it with stones. On information, D-Type Colony police reached the spot and arrested the accused, including Amjad, and started investigation.

In the second incident, Dilbar Hussain, a vegetable and fruit dealer, was shot dead by dacoits on resistance at the Sidhar vegetable market.

In the third incident, Tanvir Masih was on his way when unidentified persons shot him dead at Thikriwala. According to police, the murder took place due to an old enmity.

 

UAF entrance test

From Our Correspondent

FAISALABAD: Entrance test for admission to undergraduate programmes of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad will be held on June 5.

The centres have been established in 12 cities including, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Lahore, Layyah, Multan, Rahimyar Khan, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Toba Tek Singh, Vehari, Burewala, and Bahawalpur. The students who have applied for admission are advised to reach the centres in time. They have been asked to contact 041-9200187, 041-9201741 and 9201743 for further information.