TOBA TEK SINGH – Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaquat Baloch has said that fresh general elections were the only solution to the problems being faced by the country as the present democratic setup has failed to deliver and solve the problems of the people.
Addressing a press conference at the local JI office in Garden Town the other day, he stated that President Asif Ali Zardari should quit the presidential slot as he was not acceptable to the nation. He also demanded the formation of an independent election commission for fresh general elections under an impartial and interim government.
He announced that his party would fully take part in the next general elections. He also opposed the recent decision of the government regarding the Higher Education Commission. The others who also spoke included Punjab JI leader Professor Mahboob Zaman Butt, district JI Amir Abdul Malik, Dr Zahid Sattar and Mian Wakeel Ahmad.
Toba District Bar Association President Ch Farrukh Iqbal’s father, senior lawyer Ch Muhammad Iqbal, died here the other day after protracted illness. He was the father-in-law of JI leader Dr Maqbool Ahmad. Scores of people, including JI Secretary General Liaquat Baloch, District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Azhar Chaudhry, former district nazims Ch Abdus Sattar and Ch Muhammad Ashfaq and many DBA members, attended his funeral prayer.
APPOINTED: Lahore High Court Bar Association President Asghar Ali Gill has appointed Toba DBA member Amer Nadeem Sidhu advocate as the district monitoring committee chairman for prisoners.
FARMER dies ON ROAD: A farmer of Chak 340 GB was killed in a road accident at here on Friday. Khurshid was returning to his village from the city on his motorcycle. When he reached near Dabbanwala Bridge, a car coming from the opposite side hit his motorcycle, killing him instantly.
WOMAN FALLS VICTIM TO HONOUR KILLING: A man killed his married sister at a nearby village in the name of honour the other day. The husband of Bilqees told her brother Peeran Ditta repeatedly that she had developed illict relations with a youth of her village on which he (Peeran Ditta) shot her dead.
