SIALKOT: The hostel buildings of two women colleges in Daska and Pasrur have been without any resident for the last 11 years.

The hostels were meant for providing residences to the students of rural areas.

In Daska, the then district government of Sialkot had established the hostel in 2006 for Rs20 million at Government Postgraduate College for Women.

The building, however, never hosted any resident for no student applied for accommodation. The college management says students prefer to go back to home after attending the college.

According to the management, another major reason behind the reluctance of the students to go for the hostel was the establishment of colleges in the surroundings of Daska such as Bhopalwala and Jaamkey Cheema, which cater to rural students. The Punjab government has alsoapproved the establishment of two more girls colleges in Mundeyki Goraya and Satrah in Daska.

`The hostel has been lying useless since its establishment in 2006,` the management added.The hostel has 20 rooms and can accommodate 60 students altogether.

In the absence of students, cats and bats live in these rooms.

The government could not find any proper usage of the hostelbuilding. The college management says the rooms are small and cannot be used as classrooms.

In Pasrur, then provincial minister for energy Chaudhry Armughan Subhani inaugurated thehostelbuildingatGovernmentCollege for Women on Feb 28, 2006. The Punjab government had spent Rs14 million on the project. This hostel has also failed to find even a single resident since its establishment.

Local circles of socialists, educationists and politicians say they repeatedly brought the situation into the notice of the Sialkot district administration and the education department to find a proper usage of the buildings but in vain.

HELD: The Daska police arrested Muhammad Latif, 45, the alleged killer of his second wife and two minor sons, near Sukkur on Tuesday, Daska Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Lal Muhammad Khol(har told Dawn.

Latif was escaping to Karachi in a train. Police arrested him on a tip off.

The DSP said the accused had confessed to kill his wife Alia Bibi, 37, and sons Abdullah, 7, and Samiullah, 5, with the repeated strikes of hammers at home in village Gujj-Satrah on April 8.