RAHIM YAR KHAN, Oct 17: An activist of the outlawed Hizbul Tehreer is still in the custody of some unknown agency. This was claimed by wife of Mian Abdul Rauf and other family members while talking to newsmen here.

The wife of the missing man said that some 12 days had passed and her children asked me about the whereabouts of their father. She said that her husband was a diabetic patient and was always in need of balanced diet and medicines.

Dr Abdul Qayyum, the brother of Rauf, said that when he took a bailiff to the Pakgate police station, Multan, he was informed that some agency men had taken Rauf to some unknown place.

He said that his uncle Rasheed Ahmed had filed a writ petition in the Lahore High Court, Multan bench, for the recovery of Mian Abdul Rauf.

He said that Hizbul Tehreer would arrange a Hurriyat-i-Iraq march on Oct 29 in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and Hyderabad.

WHEAT SOWING: The inter-provincial ban on transportation of certified wheat seed will badly affect wheat sowing in Sindh and the NWFP.

This was stated by former chamber of private seed agencies president Mehr Muhammad Afzal while talking to newsmen of National News Forum here.

He said that 60 per cent of the certified cotton seed was being produced by private seed companies of Rahim Yar Khan while only 20 per cent by other seed companies of the Punjab.

He demanded that the Punjab government should lift the ban on the inter-provincial transportation of certified wheat seed as the sowing season had started in Sindh and the NWFP.

Mr Afzal said the Federal Seed Certification Department had allowed all private seed companies to sell seed anywhere. But as per the new policy of food department, there was a ban on certified wheat seed at tehsil, district and provincial level which would badly affect the wheat production.