TOBA TEK SINGH: Ten minor students were injured when a van collided with a motorcycle rickshaw, they were riding on, in Gojra on Tuesday.

Rescue 1122 said students from Chak 414-JB were returning from schools when a recklessly-driven van collided with the rickshaw. They were shifted to the Nawan Lahore Rural Health Centre, where doctors referred three of them to the Gojra Tehsil Headquarters Hospital.

The injured were identified as Laraib, Dua, and Zohra.

ACCIDENTS: A child fell from a running motorcycle rickshaw and died after another rickshaw ran over him on Tuesday in Jhang near Shorkot tehsil, Chak 20-Gagh on Leelan Wali link Road.

Rescue reported that Husnain Abbas, 11, was on his way to Shorkot from his village when the accident occurred.

Also, six passengers were seriously injured after a van hit a motorcycle rickshaw near Rakh Branch Canal on Guttwala Road in Faisalabad on Tuesday.

Rescue 1122 said that all of them were residents of Elahi Abad, identified as brothers Hasan, Arshad, and Imran, and Khurram and Nasir. In another incident in Faisalabad, motorcyclist Ahsan and his pillion rider Seema Manzoor were critically wounded when they were hit by a train near Gur Wali Mandi at Chak Jhumra.

Witnesses said that the motorcycle was crossing the track as the nearby railway level crossing was shut. Both were shifted to the Faisalabad Allied Hospital.

KILLER: A youth killed his mother in Faisalabad in Azafi Abadi of Chak 241 RB Chanchalwala on Tuesday.

According to the Thikriwala police, Muhammad Asif severely tortured his mother Manzooran Bibi, and she succumbed to her injuries on the spot. When the police arrived at the scene, the suspect was sitting near her body.

The family said that the suspect was mentally unstable.

OPERATION: The enforcement team of the Faisalabad Development Authority sealed 14 residential quarters in Allama Iqbal Colony on Tuesday for their commercial use.

The team also dismantled illegal constructions on plots in Ahmednagar locality.

A press release stated that during the inspection of various constructions in Allama Iqbal Colony, it was found that shops were being illegally established in 14 quarters and were being used for business purposes.

BOYCOTT: Teachers and all employees of the University of Jhang boycotted classes and office work on Tuesday over the non-payment of their salaries for the last three months.

They told reporters that due to vacant posts of vice chancellor and treasurer, the permanent faculty and daily wager staff members were not being paid their salaries.

They said no drinking water was available in the university, forcing teaching staff, other employees, and students to bring bottled water with them. Due to fuel shortage, transportation facilities had also been suspended.

They announced that not only would the boycott of classes continue, but they would also boycott the upcoming examination of all semesters. It is also learnt that the post of the controller of examination was also vacant.

INJURED: Two labourers were critically wounded after the roof of an under-construction house caved in in Faisalabad on Jaranwala Road in the main Bazaar of the Bijlighar locality.

The injured, identified as Ghulam Murtaza, 17, and Ameer Hamza, 23, were rescued by rescuers and area people and were shifted to the DHQ hospital.

PROTEST: Markazi Anjuman Tajiran Pakistan chief patron and president of Anjuman Tajran Faisalabad Khwaja Shahid Razzaq Sakka and general secretary Sheikh Saeed Ahmed say that the responsibility of the Punjab Horticulture Authority is to decorate the parks and other areas of the city, but its officials are harassing the traders for signboards in markets.

In a joint press statement, they said they opposed the contract system of collection of illegal taxes and urged Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi to take notice of the issue.

Published in Dawn, November 22nd, 2023