OKARA, April 14: Local notables on Saturday called for registration of a case against the former district coordination officer for taking away an Rs144,000 LCD owned by the tehsil municipal administration, provision of more facilities at district headquarters hospital’s emergency and equal share of development funds for all city communities.

At a meeting of political, business and religious representatives at DCO office conference room chaired by Additional District Collector/TMA Administrator Malik Zaheer Abbas, the meeting participants said officials of the TMA legal cell be made to get vacated a stay got by Church Road shopkeepers to get encroachments removed and construction of the road completed.

PML-N district coordinator Mian Munir, traders’ representative Chaudhry Saleem Sadiq, Abdus Sattar Mughal of the citizen police liaison committee, former nazims Shahid Hameed and Akbar Ali Khan, lawyers’ representative Lala Javed Ashraf and journalists’ representative Munir Chaudhry attended the meeting and raised the demands on behalf of city’s people.

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