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Farmers ransack govt rest house in protest against RUDA
National
March 3, 2021
LAHORE: A large number of farmers ransacked a government rest-house while protesting against Ravi Urban Development Authority (RUDA) here on Tuesday.
Revenue officers have called farmers at Babakwal Bangla on Kala Khatai Road to announce the award rates of to be acquired land. The meeting started around 12noon and as soon as the farmers heard the government’s proposed rates for their lands they became infuriated and started chanting slogans.
They exchanged hot words with the revenue officers and one of the officers slapped a farmer after which farmers became violent and a scuffle started between them and revenue officers. The revenue officers fled the scene and the infuriated farmers ransacked the rest-house and blocked Kala Khatai Road for several hours.
A number of farmers attacked a revenue department team for announcing, what they say, meagre rates of their land being acquired for the mega Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project. Dawn
LAHORE: A number of farmers attacked a revenue department team for announcing, what they say, meagre rates of their land being acquired for the mega Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project.
As farmers thrashed a patwari, other team members, led by the land acquisition collectors, fled and took cover in the quarters of Babakwala rest house, Kala Khatai Road of Ferozewala.
“We reject the rate of Rs200,000 per acre located in the riverbed. The rates of the land other than the riverbed has been fixed Rs1.35 million per acre which is really nothing,” farmer Nazir Awan said.
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The bus was en-route from Quetta to Karachi
PHOTO: EXPRESS
QUETTA:
At least eight people were killed and 22 others were injured when a high-speed passenger bus overturned on Bela National Highway in Lasbela district of Balochistan early Wednesday.
According to reports, among the deceased were also two levies personnel deployed at the check post which the bus hit before it overturned whereas the injured had been shifted to a local hospital
Edhi officials said that the bus was en-route from Quetta to Karachi.
The deceased have been identified as Sepoy Mohammad Aslam, resident of Rijal Bela; Sepoy Muhammad Yusuf Ameen, resident of Doda Bela; Naz who is identified as the wife of Abdul Sattar; Zulaikha, resident of Panjgur, Haleem Jan Akbar Baloch, resident of Panjgur, Gul Shama Sabir, resident of Panjgur; Noordan Majid, resident of Panjgur and Bismillah Omar Majid, resident of Panjgur.