TOBA TEK SINGH: The Nishatabad (Faisalabad) police on Friday registered a case against unidentified people on the allegation of dismantling motorway installations and forcibly opening M-4 for traffic on May 25.

The complainant -- National Highway Authority’s maintenance sub-engineer Toqueer Ahmad -- claimed in the FIR registered under sections 434, 427, 186 and 188 of PPC that M-4 was closed for traffic on Wednesday to maintain law and order. Suspects cut 48-meter steel fencing and broke eight concrete posts adjacent to the FDA city.

They also forcibly opened traffic on M-4 and created law and order situation, he said.

Scores of PTI activists allegedly demolished FDA city housing scheme’s wall adjacent to M-4 and succeeded to hit the motorway to join the long march on Islamabad.

BURNT: Two persons were critically burnt after a gas blast in Faisalabad’s Mansoorabad area on Chak Jhumra Road on Friday.

Rescue 1122 reported that shop owner Muhammad Akram, 48, and his helper Hamza Maqsood, 23, opened shutter and switched on light which sparked and caused a blast due to a cylinder leakage.

A fire broke out in the shop and both persons were critically burnt. A team of the Rescue 1122 firefighters extinguished the fire and shifted them to the Allied Hospital.

WB DELEGATES: A team of World Bank consultants on Friday held a meeting with Kamalia municipal committee chief officer Muhammad Zohair and MC’s engineers to review the progress in the technical feasibility of the construction of the general bus stand (GBS).

A press release said separate waiting rooms would be built for passengers and transport staff at the bus stand. A car, rickshaw and taxi stand also would be part of this modern facility.

Meanwhile, MPA (a former provincial minister) Ashfa Fatyana said the World Bank had approved Rs2 billion grant for Kamalia city two years ago and the amount was being used for the bus stand. She said choked sewerage pipelines had been replaced in city’s 14 areas and the project of water treatment plant and main sewerage drain worth Rs250 million was under way.

She added that construction of Mohalla Faazil Dewan’s park, Mahmood park, Jinnah park and Zeeshan Colony’s ladies park had recently been completed out of the same grant. She stated that three villages -- Chak 711 GB, 54/2 GB and Mauza Baroon -- had been included in Kamalia MC limits on her proposal.

Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2022