FAISALABAD City News

Proposed privatisation of company

Fesco employees warn of besieging Punjab Assembly on 7th

From Our Correspondent

FAISALABAD: The Fesco Employees Association and Wapda Paigham Union (CBA) on Thursday announced besieging the Punjab Assembly on January 7 if the government did not withdraw its decision to privatise the Fesco.

Addressing the hunger strike camp here, Wapda Paigham Union (CBA) chairman Abbas Gujjar and general secretary Mian Iftikhar Ahmad said that the Fesco was running in profit and, hence, there was no justification to privatise it. They said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had categorically assured that the Fesco would not be privatised but the Water and Power Ministry was bent upon to privatise the company to please its favourites.

Mian Iftikhar Ahmad said that instead of privatising the Fesco and other profit-earning companies, the government should focus its attention to improve good governance and eliminate corruption from these organisations. Fesco union leaders Faiz Rasool, Rana Zaheer, Saleem Iqbal and Nisar Khichi and others also spoke on the occasion.

 

Man kills brother for property

From Our Correspondent

FAISALABAD: A man with his three accomplices killed his brother over a property dispute at Umair Town in Millat Town police limits on Thursday.

There was a property dispute between Iftikhar Yaqoob and his brother Ishtiaq Ahmad. On the day of the incident, Ishtiaq was going to the market for buying eatables when Iftikhar with his three accomplices allegedly shot him dead. Police are investigating.