SARGODHA: Case against 37 drug traffickers
SARGODHA, Dec 29: Around 37 drug-traffickers were booked on Wednesday by police, who also seized over four kilograms heroin and two kilograms hashish from their possession.
Besides, the police unearthed two distilleries and recovered eight litre liquor. This was disclosed by Sargodha DPO Muhammad Naeem Khan while talking to Dawn here on Wednesday.
EXHIBITION: A two-day exhibition of citrus fruit will begin on Thursday (today) here under the auspices of Orange Research Institute of Sargodha.
According to the director of the institute, sample of citrus fruits could be submitted on Thursday between 8am and 12 noon and the selected fruit would be placed in the exhibition at 3pm.
He said a seminar on citrus fruit would be held on Dec 31 with Punjab Minister for Agriculture Arshad Lodhi in the chair. He said experts including Prof Dr Chaudhry Ibrahim, Dr Ahmad Salim Akhtar, Dr Ghulam Mustafa, Chaudhry Ahmad Gul and Chaudhry Abdul Ghaffar would address the seminar.
WATERCOURSES: Under a four-year national programme 398 watercourses will be brick-lined and renovated in four districts of Sargodha region by June 30 next. This was stated by Punjab agriculture secretary Maj Fayaz Bashir at a meeting here on Wednesday.
He said 146 water courses in Sargodha, 44 in Khushab, 100 in Mianwali and 108 in Bhakkar would be renovated and improved during the current fiscal year. Maj Bashir said of the targeted work of lining, 27 of 40 water course in Sargodha, nine of 16 in Khushab, 16 of 24 in Bhakkar and 17 of 20 in Mianwali would be completed by Dec 31.
He also took serious notice of artificial shortage and black marketing of urea and directed the DCOs of the four districts to take stern action against the hoarders and ensure implementation of the price fixed by the government. He said the government has fixed rate of a urea bag from Rs445 to Rs455.