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FAISALABAD, Feb 16: Joint teams of the local police and Rangers have been deployed at all sensitive spots of the city, especially outside religious seminaries, educational institutions and commercial centres to avert any eventuality.
Following violence during strike and demonstrations against the publication of blasphemous caricatures on Tuesday, teams visited the local educational institutions and seminaries asking the respective management not to allow students to come on roads.
A joint flag march of the Rangers and police was also arranged in various city areas to provide a sense of security to the people.
Religious leaders and political parties representatives have been asked by the administration not to give any call for protest rallies and demonstration following a ban imposed by the Punjab government.
However, local religious organisations, trade bodies and PPP have given protest calls for Friday (today).
All Pakistan Sizing Industries Association have also announced complete strike in the country on Feb 20 and decided to take out a rally from Madina Town to Clock Tower intersection.
Meanwhile, the Kotwali police have registered a case against 800 unidentified protesters for damaging public and private property on Tuesday.
SAPLINGS: The spring tree plantation campaign was inaugurated by DCO Azam Suleman Khan by planting a sapling in the lawn of the DCO Office Complex on Thursday.
The DCO asked the district forest officer to present him the figures of the saplings planted during the last years and their survival rate.
He said the planted saplings should be properly watered and nurtured.
The DO said 530,000 saplings would be planted in the district during the current campaign and of these 200,000 would be planted in the government forests. The forest department had set up a network of sale points and nurseries at different points here.
BOOK FAIR: The ninth annual book fair started here at the campus of University of Agriculture on Thursday.
Students from the university and other education institutions of the city as well as people from a cross section of society visited the fair.
More than 20 book sellers, printers, publishers and institutions are taking part in the fair.
