DASKA – The provincial health secretary ordered the medical superintendent of Civil Hospital Daska to bring the six-member blind family to the hospital for check-up and provide them with free medical facilities after the story of this poor family was published in Pakistan Today on December 14.
Rehmat Ali, 65, appealed to the government for help stating that his income was very low and he could not afford medical treatment of his family. When the news was published in Pakistan Today, the health secretary took notice of it and ordered the Civil Hospital Daska MS to bring the blind family to the hospital for treatment.
Dr Sultan Ahmed Cheema and his grandson Zeeshan Ahmed Cheema checked the eyes of the blind family and told Pakistan Today that many cases like this had been reported before and the doctors were making research. He said the disease was called Retinitis pigmentos and it affected a person gradually.
If the disease was treated in the beginning, it could not hurt the patient. The blind family members thanked Pakistan Today, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Sialkot DCO Mujahid Sher Dil and the health secretary for helping them.
DACOIT GANG BUSTED, VALUABLES SEIZED: The Daska police arrested four members of an inter-district gang of dacoits, including its ring leader, and recovered the stolen and looted valuables worth Rs 2.5 million from them. The valuables included gold ornaments, electronics, motorcycles and kitchen items.
Sialkot District Police Officer (DPO) Bilal Siddique Kamiyana disclosed this while addressing a press conference at the Daska DSP office. Sialkot SP (Investigation) Muhammad Nasir Qureshi and DSP Daska Muhammad Afzal Bhatti were also present on the occasion.
The DPO told newsmen that the arrested dacoits, Muzammal Abbas, Bhola, Choora and Arshad, belonged to Gujranwala city. He said the accused had been living in a rented house at Daska city, adding they had been keeping the looted and stolen goods in the rented house. He said the accused had already been declared proclaimed offenders (POs) in many robbery and theft cases by Civil Lines and Baghbanpura police.
The DPO added that the accused were plotting to commit another dacoity while sitting in a plot near Daska when a police party led by Inspector Irfanul Haq Sulehria (SHO Daska City police station) raided the place and arrested the accused.
ANTI-ENCROACHMENT DRIVE FAILS: The anti-encroachment drive launched in Daska city by the district administration has miserably failed as the local traders and shopkeepers have re-established their illegal shops on almost all the roads and bazaars of the city.
According to details, the district administration had started anti-encroachment campaign in Daska city to purge the city from the encroachments. The administration demolished few official buildings established several decades ago.
The demolished buildings included the TMA building, Municipal Library, DDO (Revenue) office and Civil Club. The administration showed an open partiality by not demolishing the official building of DSP Daska office which also comes in the row where the demolished official buildings were located.
Moreover, the district administration has not even touched the several other encroachments erected by some politically influential people in Daska city’s congested Fawara Chowk, Nisbat Road, Pasrur Road, Sambrial Road, Circular Road, Main Bazaar and College Road.
