TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of people of Chak 371-JB staged a sitin and blocked traffic for more than three hours on Wednesday in Gojra to protest non-acceptance of their demand to shift a government girls primary school located adjacent to a graveyard to inside the village.

The sit-in was participated in by students ofthe schooland several men and women.

Speaking at the sit-in on GojraFaisalabad bypass road, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader from Gojra and a defeated candidate from PP-85, Mian Muhammad Tariq, said two days ago a minor student of the school, Anam Gulfam, had been injured in a traffic accident when she was crossing the road to go to school. He added she was in critical condition at Faisalabad`s Allied Hospital.

He further said previously a number of students had been wounded in accidents at the same spot as the school had been built far from the village across the busy bypass road right next to a graveyard due to which a number of parents had pulled their children out of the school. He alongwith other speakers demanded the school be immediately shifted to the village.

Gojra Deputy Superintendent of Police Azhar Yaqoob held talks with the protesters but they refused to end their sit-in till the acceptance of their demand.

Later, Toba District Education Officer (Elementary) Najma Manzoor reached the spot andannounced that their demands had been accepted and the school would be shifted to the village at the earliest at which the protesters dispersed.

TMA STRIKE: Workers of Toba and Pirmahal tehsil municipal administrations (TMAs) went on strike on Wednesday in solidarity with the Kamalia TMA employees, who were protesting againstalleged misbehaviour of their administrator Assistant Commissioner (AC) Khalid Mahmood with a worker.

Kamalia TMA staff had locked the offices and was staging a sit-in outside the TMA complex for the second consecutive day on Wednesday. A junior clerk of the planning department, Akbar Ali, claimed the AC had insulted himwithout any fault and of ten misbehaved with other employees also.

He threatened to immolate himself and his family members if the AC was not transferred by Thursday (today).

Meanwhile, Kamalia tehsil bar association members also continued their strike for the sixth consecutive day against alleged misbehaviour of the AC with lawyers.

They held a meeting in the bar room where bar President Rai Niaz Ahmad Khan and General Secretary Nayar Abbas Marth announced that their strike and protest will continue till the transfer of the AC.

Additional District Collector (ADC) Ahmad Khawar Shahzad visited Kamalia on Wednesday and held a meeting to resolve the dispute between lawyers and the AC.

The meeting was also attended by bar office-bearer Mehr Saeed Ahmad, Tehsil Municipal Officer Rana Ahmad Nawaz and Tehsildar Rao Zafar Iqbal. But the AC did not attend the meeting.

The ADC hoped the dispute would be resolved soon. He said some proposals of the lawyers regarding security of lawyers and courts had been implemented.