BAHAWALPUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf former general
secretary Jehangir Tareen, who was disqualified by the Supreme Court,
announced on Wednesday nomination of his son Ali Tareen as party
candidate to contest by-election in NA-154 (Lodhran).
Tareen made the announcement while addressing an election rally at Lodhran on Wednesday.
Addressing
the workers, he said he would always stand by PTI and serve the people
of the area despite his disqualification. He claimed that on the desire
of party workers, Ali Tareen was nominated as a PTI candidate.
As
Wednesday was the second day to file nomination papers by the
candidates to contest the by-election, no one turned up to submit
papers.
District Returning Officer (DRO) Ibrar Ahmed
Jatoi told Dawn by cell phone that Thursday would be the last day to
file nomination papers.
According to election schedule
announced by ECP, the final list of the candidates would be displayed on
Dec 29 while scrutiny of papers would be completed by Jan 5, 2018.
Polling would be held on Feb 12.
Addressing the
gathering, Ali Tareen said he would try his utmost to live up to the
expectations of the party. He assured that if elected, he would raise
his voice for the rights of cultivators in the national assembly.
arrested:
Five sugarcane brokers were taken into custody while three others
booked on charges of installation of illegal scales and purchase of cane
from growers on less rates than the fixed Rs180 per maund.
This
was stated by Deputy Commissioner Rana Muhammad Saleem while briefing
Punjab Agriculture Minister Naeem Akhtar Khan Bhabha who visited Ashraf
sugar mills, Bahawalpur, on Tuesday.
The DC informed the
minister that the district administration imposed fine to the tune of
Rs400,000 on middlemen for allegedly exploiting growers.
He
said under the supervision of Saddar Assistant Commissioner Sarmad
Taimoor a complaint cell was opened in the mill while the district
control room was also made functional for facilitating growers.
On the occasion, the minister directed the mill management to prefer small landholders in the purchase of sugarcane.
GANG BUSTED:
Musafir Khana police claimed on Wednesday to have unearthed Ijazi gang
and arrested its ring leader Ijaz along with his two accomplices.
Police
said suspects Nauman and Aziz were involved in murder of Muhammad
Shoaib during a dacoity on Nov 17. Shoaib was deprived of his
motorcycle, cash and mobile which were also recovered from their
possession.
LAID TO REST: Sepoy Usman Arshad was laid to
rest amid full military honour at his native village 360/WB graveyard in
Dunyapur tehsil on Wednesday.
Usman Arshad embraced martyrdom during the indiscriminate firing by the Indian forces in the Rakh Chakri-Uri sector (Kashmir).
