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MULTAN: Lahore High Court senior judge Muhammad Qasim Khan Wednesday said judges are serving with dedication in the absence of facilities at their offices.
Addressing lawyers and district administration officials at Multan District Bar Association on the occasion of an inaugural ceremony of district courts’ sewerage system, the LHC judge said all judges are providing justice to litigants with full of commitment.
He said their offices are not fully equipped with facilities. He said the environment plays a key role to the execution of a work in any sector of the life and better environment improves the performance of the work according to expectations.
He said a high-level committee of the LHC has finally decided handing over the Highway Office building and land to the LHC Multan Bench. He said the bar, bench and executive are serving society at their respective levels. He said he started his law practice from Multan and would contribute to play a role for the welfare of LHC Multan Bench and the district bar at all levels.
Multan District and Sessions Judge Suhail Akram said district bar’s sewerage system was in a state of dilapidation and Deputy Commissioner Amir Khattak took personal interest and released funds for the project.
Multan High Court Bar Association President Malik Haider Osman, Multan District Bar Association president Nazim Khan and secretary general Afzal Bashir Ansari also spoke. Talking to reporters, the DC said Rs 7.2 million have been released for the sewerage project which will be completed in one month.
He said the authorities of Solid Waste Management Company have been directed to ensure cleanliness at district bar on regular basis. The DC said that clean drinking water plants are also being installed at tehsil bars.
Fertilizer free pulses exhibition on Feb 10: A two-day exhibition of organic pulses, including chick pea and peanut oil, grown by farmers of Thal, will be organised by Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture (MNSUA) in Islamabad on February 10.
Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialisation, MNSUA, Director Dr Zulfiqar Ali told here on Wednesday that they had ensured fertiliser free (organic) pulses after Chemical Residue tests scientifically known as maximum residual level test which showed not even a single spray was not conducted during cultivation and growing. Funded by Australia, the exhibition is a part of a project titled: Increasing Productivity and Profitability of Pulses Production in Cereal Based Cropping System in Pakistan, he said. Two Australian farmers would interact with Thal farmers and students from the varsity during the exhibition would share their experience.
He stated that under two million dollars project, Australia was interested in increasing Pakistani exports of organic pulses.
Australian Centre for International Agri Research (ACIAR) and six Pakistani partners, including Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, MNSUA Multan, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, with attached three organisations, BARI, Arid Zone Research Institute, Bhakkar and QAARI, Larkana. A coordinator of NARC Islamabad was also a part of the project.
A total of six sites identified for the cultivation of organic pulses, including Chakwal, Fateh Jang, Bhakkar, (Punjab), Larkana (Sindh), Karak (KPK) and Jaffarabad, Naseerabad (Balochistan) where 15 local farmers’ families with five members were working, Dr Zulfiqar informed.
He said that as many as 90 farmers’ families would be trained under the project.
The project is aimed at promoting organic pulses cultivation in Pakistan, he concluded.
12 cases registered for violation of Marriage Act: The divisional administration registered 12 cases against violators of Punjab Marriage Act here on Wednesday.
According to an official, special teams conducted 200 raids across the Multan division during three days. The teams were taking action against marriage hall owners over fireworks and aerial firing in marriage ceremonies.
The marriage halls administration was bound to close the marriage halls till 10pm. The administration was strictly implementing the marriage function act under the directions of Punjab government.
