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Loadshedding continues in Okara

By Our Correspondent
May 18, 2018

OKARA: Unscheduled electricity loadshedding of 12 hours was continued despite the advent of Ramazan.

Patients and their relatives faced nuisance in the DHQ hospital where power generators were not working properly. The city situation was also not different where people faced difficulties in performing their routine matters with ease due to continuous electricity loadshedding.

Citizens, traders and the people from different walks of life had demanded the authorities concerned to overcome the loadshedding during Ramazan. SHOs transferred, posted: Various SHOs in the district were reshuffled on Thursday.

The district police officer (DPO) posted Inspector Riazuddin Gujjar at PS Basirpur as SHO, Inspector Ijaz Dogar as SHO Cantonment police station, Inspector Mahr Yousuf as SHO PS Haveli Lakha, Mehmoodul Hassan as SHO Shahbhore, Nawab Dogar as SHO Hujra Shah Moqeem, Inspector Malik Tassawar as SHO City Depalpur, Nadeem Iqbal as SHO PS Satghara, Kashif Hussain as SHO PS Shergarh, Farrukh Shahzad as SHO Ccity Renala Khurd, Riffat Hameed as SHO PS Chuchak and Rizwan Bhatti as DIB at DPO office. Inspector Malik Tariq Javed Awan and Inspector Naseer Khan are directed to report to the district police lines.

COP DIES IN ROAD ACCIDENT: A policeman died when a truck hit him on Thursday. Mazhar Fareed, of village Bonga Awan, was heading towards police station B-Division after Sehri, when near Choraste village 38/D a speeding truck hit and killed him. The City Depalpur police have registered a case.

LIQUOR SEIZED: Police Thursday recovered jewelry accessories and liquor from a house at Sidra Ghafoor Town.

Police arrested accused Javed of Shamsia Colony with 19 litre liquor, accused Umar Farooq of village 15/1AL with 20 litre lliquor, accused Faisal of Lehrasab Town with 20 litre liquor, accused Aftab of Kot Nihal Singh with 320 gram charas, accused Muhammad Mokha of Jaboka with 200 gram charas, accused Muhammad Riaz of 30/D with 200 gram charas. Cases are registered against the accused accordingly.