BAHAWALPUR: The Bahawalpur Waste Management Company (BWMC) has launched a washing campaign titled Mera Shehr Meri Pahchan in the city.

Inaugurating the drive here on Wednesday, Deputy Commissioner Bahawalpur Zaheer Anwar Jappa said during the week-long campaign, important thoroughfares, streets, historic monuments, heritage sites, crossings and bus bays would be washed in an effort to clear them from dust as such roads and buildings had been ignored for the last many years.

Speaking on the occasion, BWMC chief executive officer Muhammad Naeem said the company’s sanitary workers would complete the task, including green belts on busy roads in the city.

To start with the campaign, the DC and other officials supervised the washing of the “Love BAHAWALPUR” monument and over a century-old cannon installed at the post office crossing near Farid Gate.

LIFE TERM: Additional District and Sessions judge Ahmedpur East Rana Shamshad Ahmed handed down life imprisonment along with a fine of Rs100,000 to drug peddler Ahmed Yar.

According to assistant district public prosecutor Ghulam Yasin, police had registered a case and arrested the suspect for keeping and selling illegally 35 kilogram charas.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Bahawalpur Fawad Arif awarded three-year rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs30,000 for selling 1,220 gram charas in the limits of Kotwali police station Kotwali.

On behalf of the prosecution, district public prosecutor Ms Saira Jamil appeared.

Published in Dawn, March 2nd, 2023