OKARA City News

‘OMF tenants will not be deprived of fields’

From Our Correspondent

OKARA: The law-abiding tenants of the Okara Military Farms (OMF) will not be deprived of the fields, which they have been cultivating, said the district police officer.

Talking to newsmen here on Wednesday, he said that the tenants would not face any trouble or difficulty from the law enforcing agencies while tilling their fields. Presently, the tenants had been working in their fields without any pressure from some elements, who had created a war-like situation between the tenants and the government in villages of the state land, he added. He said that all such elements had been arrested. The DPO said that the tenants remained under threats of these elements, who had gathered around them groups of outlaws and providing them shelter. The DPO said that he would hold open court in the government land villages from next month to hear and solve problems of the tenants.

TEACHER DROWNS: A retired teacher drowned in a watercourse here. Residents of Batak found the body of an old man stuck in bushes of Batak Rajbah and dragged it out. On announcements through mosque loudspeakers, people reached the spot to identify the body. The body was later identified as Yaqoob, a retired teacher, of Hujra Shah Moqeem. Yaqoob had come to the house of Nisar to see his granddaughter. It is learnt that Yaqoob went to the watercourse to take bath when he drowned.