Posts Tagged ‘Muzaffargarh’

Lahore Rams lift Rugby Sevens title

LAHORE – Lahore Djuice Rams won the Lahore Delhi Rugby 7s Tournament after defeating DHA Gold team by 35-7 here at the DHA Rugby Stadium on Saturday.
Lahore’s player Tahir scored two tries and helped team to win final. Delhi lost the semi-final to DHA Gold and t other match against DHA Greens.
In the third position match, Delhi beat Muzaffargarh. Saraib Qazi from Delhi played a very good …

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Wapda workers rise against price hike

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LAHORE (PR) – Hundreds of Wapda workers held protest demonstrations across the country against price hike and proposed privatisation of thermal plants and Wapda.
Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union workers held rallies in major cities like Gujranwala, Gujrat, Peshawar, Mardan, Abbotabad, Quetta, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Nawabshah, Guddu, Muzaffargarh, Multan,…

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Seven killed in van-tractor trolley head-on collision in Muzaffaragarh

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At least seven persons were killed and 15 others injured in collision between two vehicles here in Muzaffaragarh on Thursday.
According to police, a Layyah bound passenger van coming from Multan, collided head-on with a tractor trolley coming from opposite direction in Chowk Sawar Shaheed locality of Muzaffargarh.
As a…

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Police accused of slitting throat of accused in Muzaffargarh

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Police in Muzaffargarh on Monday allegedly tried to slit throat of an accused held by them on the charges of kidnapping.
The accused victim, Ghulam Abbas was currently facing kidnapping charges and was arrested by police five days ago. During interrogation, police allegedly tried to slit his throat with a…

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New province to end sense of deprivation: PM

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MUZAFFARGARH/NAWABSHAH – Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday assured the people of Southern Punjab of a new province, saying it would end their sense of deprivation.
Addressing a public rally here after performing ground-breaking ceremony of a multi-million housing project donated by Turkish government for flood-affectees, Gilani said…

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Six killed in Muzaffargarh road accident

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Six people were killed in a road accident between a passenger van and two motorcycles near Muzaffargarh on Monday. According to police, the van was traveling from Muzzaffargarh to Kot Addu when the accident occurred near the Thar Mill power station, a private news channel reported. Six including women and…

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8 killed in Muzaffargarh road accident

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Eight passengers were killed and many others were injured when an over-speeding bus overturned in Muzaffargarh on Saturday. Reportedly, the bus was heading towards Karachi from Rawalpindi when it overturned near the Hityan bus-stop in Shehr Sultan due to over-speeding. As a result, eight people died on the spot.

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Jockeys get compensation

BAHAWALPUR, July 18: The Social Welfare Department distributed on Monday cheques for Rs50,000 each among 16 former camel jockeys, of six districts, repatriated from the United Arab Emirates and other Arab countries. Former jockeys were from Bahawalpur, Multan, Rajanpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh and Faisalabad districts. Punjab Social Welfare Director-General Aslam Awan said the government [...]

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Job seekers protest

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MUZAFFARGARH – Job seekers protested for appointments against the vacant posts for teachers in Sardar Kauray Khan Secondry School Muzaffargarh.
They said that the government had failed to provide jobs for the highly educated young people in the country, demanding that the condition of B.Ed degree should be removed…

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Power shortfall increases to over 5,000MW

LAHORE, April 22: The electricity shortfall shot up by 50 per cent of the demand on Friday, keeping half of the country without power and forcing Pepco to carry out up to 16 hours of loadshedding.

According to the Pakistan Electric Power Company, it faces a shortfall of 5,010MW, with the demand at 14,475MW. Pepco officials said that a reduction in supply of furnace oil and gas, shortage of funds to buy oil and reduced water releases from two major dams were the main factors leading to this “disastrous situation”.

They admitted that Pepco’s own thermal units were not working properly; half of them were on forced outage because of lack of proper maintenance and the rest were not getting oil.

“Three main thermal units — Jamshoro, Muzaffargarh and Guddu — are partially on forced outages, leaving a shortage of about 900MW. The 700MW Jamshoro unit is on 180MW forced outrage. Of the 1,130MW GTPS Muzaffargarh, machines generating 300MW are out of order. At the 1,155MW Guddu power plant, units for 400MW are lying idle,” a Pepco official said.

He said that none of the plants got any gas supply, affecting the performance of other units as well. “That is why out of the total capacity of about 3,500MW, the company’s own thermal units could produce only 1,396MW on Friday.”

He said the Faisalabad Combined Cycle Unit (210MW) was completely shut because it neither had gas nor money to purchase diesel.

The non-supply of gas hit three other plants — Sapphire Electric Power (225MW), Saif Power Project (209MW) and Orient Power Project (212MW). They are producing only 495MW.

The fuel crisis has completely shut down Japan Power (135MW) and Saba Power (134MW).

On Friday, Pepco received only 11,000 tons of furnace oil against the total requirement of 36,000 tons. The reduced supply, another Pepco official said, had played havoc with the company’s generation plan.

“Pakistan State Oil cannot be faulted much for reduced oil supplies because Pepco is neither paying nor giving any hope to PSO which has to pay advance to foreign sellers. The huge PSO receivables against Pepco and IPPs (independent power produces) are a fact of the power sector. Pepco has no money, gas, oil and water to generate power,” he added.

The National Power Control Centre (NPCC), which is supposed to balance demand and supply, is also resorting to massive unscheduled loadshedding because it can supply only as much power as it receives.

The official said the NPCC had carried out unplanned loadshedding of 2,000MW ‘over the past 24 hours’. Total shortfall stood at 7,000MW and demand at 14,000MW.

The situation, he said, would worsen over the next few days because weather was getting hotter. “Once air conditioners are switched on throughout the country, which Pepco is expecting in a week’s time, it will add about 5,000MW to the demand, and things can go haywire then,” he feared.

APP adds: Water and Power Minister Syed Naveed Qamar said on Friday that the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) had been asked to prepare a plan for construction of 32 small and medium dams across the country in two phases.

During the question-hour in the National Assembly, he said that 12 small and medium dams would be built in the first phase.

Two reservoirs will be built in Sindh, five in Balochistan, three in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata and two in Punjab. According to the schedule, Mr Qamar said, the dams would be completed by 2014, depending “on availability of funds”.

He said that 20 dams would be constructed in the second phase.

Answering a question, the minister said India had so far built 43 hydroelectric projects on “our western rivers of Indus, Jhelum and Chenab”.

Thirteen of these projects were built before the signing of the Indus Water Treaty in 1960 and about 30 after it.

“Only eight of the 30 can be categorised as major projects and the rest are mini and micro-hydroelectric projects having no downstream effects,” the minister added. He said India was continuously constructing power projects on “our western rivers at an average rate of one project in two years”.

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Musharraf remnants talk of revolution: Shahbaz

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MUZAFFARGARH – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif visited Muzaffargarh district for inauguration of his first model village in Meeran Mullan on Tuesday. Model village of Meeran Mullan is located in Khangarh tehsil of Muzaffargarh. Addressing the people, the chief minister said that some elements were calling army for revolution who…

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Tough road to post-flood recovery in Pakistan

The July-September 2010 floods destroyed hundreds of fish farms in the Muzaffargarh area, according to media reports, leaving many, like Saleemullah’s sons, out of work. – Photo by AP.

Muzaffargarh, Punjab: Eight months after floods forced Saleemullah Adeel and his family to abandon their home in the southern Punjab city of Muzaffargarh, the road to recovery has proved rough for this landless farmer.

The wheat he planted on 10 acres (four hectares) leased from a large landowner at an annual fee of US $118 per acre (0.4 hectares) is doing well, and Saleemullah hopes for a good crop because weather conditions so far have been good. Near his house, which is now partially repaired, there are neat rows of vegetables, and a few hens feed in the yard.

But he has little else to be happy about, reports IRIN, the UN information unit. “I bought wheat seed and fertilizer after selling the jewelry we had purchased for my elder daughters wedding, which was scheduled for this month,” Saleemullah said. “Now it has been postponed yet I have used up all my savings and my two sons, who worked on fish farms, have lost their jobs.”

The July-September 2010 floods destroyed hundreds of fish farms in the Muzaffargarh area, according to media reports, leaving many, like Saleemullah’s sons, out of work. But Saleemullahs problems do not end here. Since he did not own the land he farmed, he was not awarded compensation by the provincial government, which gave landowners seed and fertilizer. “The landlord we lease from claimed he needed [the seed and fertilizer] for his own lands,” he said.

Other people, too, have suffered. “I have earned nothing for months because the cotton crop was destroyed, and factories which crush the cotton seed to extract oil did not employ us this time as they usually do,” said Ahsan Akhtar, 30, whose wife was not hired this year as a cotton-picker.

Across the country, people have continued to live with losses incurred during the floods, even as they attempt to recover it is is proving tough. “My youngest child, aged six months, has had diarrhea for nearly a month,” said Sanober Bibi, 25. The health workers who used to visit early on after the floods no longer come and the medicine given by the local midwife did her no good at all. There is no clinic in their village.

On April 6, Neva Khan, country director of the UK Charity Oxfam, pointed fingers at the government, telling reporters that a delay on the part of the government to provide a reconstruction strategy had resulted in delays in urgent rebuilding and recovery work. In some cases this had barely started even eight months after the disaster, he said. A government official refuted that claim. “The rehabilitation phase was started some months ago,” Ahmed Kamal, spokesman for the National Disaster Management Authority, told IRIN.

A Sindh government official, who preferred anonymity, said a “desperate lack of funds” was holding up recovery in the province, but “progress was slowly being made”.

Last year, the law was changed with many functions previously conducted by the Centre, devolved to provinces. This has complicated reconstruction planning, aid workers said. For example, in many flood- hit areas in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan, people still lack shelter. According to a survey conducted for Oxfam by the Pakistani NGO Free and Fair Election Network, 70 per cent of flood-affected people are also seeking jobs. “People want jobs, not handouts, Khan added.”

On March 31, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the floods, which affected more than 18 million people, had left behind a wave of sickness and destruction that has still to recede, even as the water dries up. An OCHA fact sheet said shelter and clean drinking water were still required. Many people were also still suffering from diseases. “In many flood-hit areas, pools of water in low-lying areas have become rubbish dumps.” “This adds to the spread of disease, and dirty water sometimes contaminates clean supplies used for drinking purposes,” Rafia Ali, a doctor, said.

“The floods have vanished off TV screens; only limited amounts of aid are reaching survivors – but the havoc caused by one of the biggest natural disasters in the country’s history continues, with no end yet in sight,” he added. That view was shared by Ibrahim Mughul, chairman of Pakistans Agriculture Council. “The agricultural losses caused by the floods were devastating, he told IRIN. Recovery will take a long time.

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20 model villages soon in flood-hit areas: CM

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LAHORE – Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said the Punjab government has evolved a comprehensive programme for construction of model villages in the flood-hit areas of the province under which 20 model villages are being constructed in these areas, and a model village in Mullan Miran of Muzaffargarh area…

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Six die in Muzaffargarh road accident

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At least six persons, including four women, were died when a trawler collided with a passenger jeep here in Muzaffargarh on Wednesday, police said.
The incident occurred near Bagga Sharif here when the driver of a speedy trawler lost his control on the vehicle and collided with a passenger jeep.<br…

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No plan to amend blasphemy law: PM

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MUZAFFARGARH/MULTAN – Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday said the government would not amend the blasphemy law. “Those, who are taking out rallies on roads, should avoid protest and instead start discussions with the government,” Gilani said while addressing a gathering in Muzaffargarh.
“I am also from the descendants of…

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50pc children out of school in 4 districts

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ISLAMABAD – In four districts of Multan, Muzaffargarh, Rahim Yar Khan and Rajanpur more than 50 per cent children of the total population of 5 to 9 years are out of school and the number of out of school children is higher for girls than boys.
This was revealed…

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Apex court resumes hearing today

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ISLAMABAD – Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, counsel for Mukhtaran Mai informed the apex court on Tuesday that gang rape, if tended to cause terror, could be called as terrorist act.
Mukhtaran Mai, a resident of Meerwala, Muzaffargarh district, allegedly became a victim of a gang rape in 2002, as a form…

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