Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Hot News (29th April)

CHAKWAL APRIL, 29. The cyrus virus in Hong Kong affected the export of cotton thread from Pakistan thus all the textile mills in the country are facing great hardships and many textils mills were shut down due to this crises. The companies in Hong Kong which had signed an agreement of Pakistan Cotton thread had asked the textile mills owners to stope the export of cotton thread to Hong Kong. The two textile mills of District Chakwal were exporting 50 containers to Hong Kong monthly and now this export was stopped and the two units of these textile mills were shut down as they were deprived of rupees 80 million monthly business with Hong Kong. The textile mills in Pakistan were already under pressure as there is a shortage of production of cotton bails as the required production for the local textile mills are 10.5 millions bales as there was only 9.8 millions bales were produced during this fiscal year and there is a shortage of 1.2 million bales. The price in the international market are also very high and it is beyond the reach of the textile mills owner in Pakistan. The prevailing condition if not improved shortly it is feared that the most of the textile mills in Pakistan will be closed and thousands of workers will become jobless.

CHAKWAL APRIL, 29. District and Session Judge Chakwal Ch: Riaz Ahmad granted bail to the killer of his wife as the accused had stuck a deal with the legal hears of the deceased wife. The accused Manzoor Hussain S/O Sher Khan had killed his wife Noor Jahan on a minor dispute at Village Jabair Pur with danda a month ago and Saddar Police Chakwal had registered a murder case against him and the accused was in the judicial lockup. In the meantime City Police Chakwal arrested an accused Muhammad Asif S/O Ghulam Murtaza and recovered a dagger that was used in the attempt of murder on a person. In an other case Choa Saiden Shah Police arrested a drug pusher Tariq Mehmood S/O Dost Muhammad resident of Choa Saiden Shah and recovered 500 grams chares from him.

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