TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of farmers, displaced by the River Chenab flood in Sultanpura of Jhang staged a protest demonstration on Tuesday against inflated domestic and tubewell electricity bills.

They said they were unable to reside in their houses as floodwater had demolished their houses and due to standing water in the crops they were unable to run their tubewells.

They told reporters that with fuel surcharge and taxes, each tubewell owner received a bill of Rs100,000 to Rs300,000 for August.

They urged parliamentarians to come to help them in getting rid of the excesses of Fesco, Jhang’s Khewa flood-hit subdivision. The protesters also chanted slogans against the federal government for not giving attention to the issue of inflated power bills.

ELECTROCUTED: A boy was electrocuted at Rajana on Tuesday.

Rescue 1122 reported that Khyam Naseer, 12, of Chak 184-GB, tried to drink water from a running tubewell on the roadside but a live electricity wire was in the water. He received a shock and was seriously injured.

He was rushed to the Rajana Rural Health Centre where doctors declared him dead.

Meanwhile, in Faisalabad’s Adda Dalloowal, a woman allegedly took poison after giving poison to her three minor daughters on Tuesday.

She and the children were rushed to the DHQ Hospital. They were identified as Nasreen Bibi and her daughters seven-year-old Noor Fatima, six-year-old Maham Bibi and three-year-old Anfal Bibi.

UAF: The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, has extended the last date for receipt of online applications for admissions to undergraduate programmes up to Aug 18.

Test and Interview for Hafiz-e-Quran candidates will be held in the office of the director of student affairs, for co-curricular activities at the office of the senior tutor on Aug 22 and sports trials will be held on Aug 24.

BODY: Of the three people, including two sisters, missing in the River Chenab at Jhang on Monday, Rescue 1122 divers found the body of one woman, while the operation was going on to find the other two women.

The Rescue 1122 spokesperson reported that the body of Allah Rakhi was handed over to her family. Her younger sister Sonia Bibi, 16, could not be found so far.

Muhammad Usman, 17, of Waris Road, Jhang, was also missing in the water near New Chund Chenab river bridge on Jhang-Sargodha Road.

Published in Dawn, August 17th, 2022