Scores of farmers of a dozen of Pirmahal and Toba tehsils villages located on the bank of Trimmu-Sidhnai Link Canal have demanded brick-lining of the canal to save their wheat crops from destruction.

01-03-2015

Toba Tek Singh.(www.apnapirmahal.com)01-03-2015:Scores of farmers of a dozen of Pirmahal and Toba tehsils villages located on the bank of Trimmu-Sidhnai Link Canal have demanded brick-lining of the canal to save their wheat crops from destruction.  They demanded this during their meeting with MNA Ch Asadur Rehman here on Saturday. The farmers, led by Ch Shafqat Rasool and Ch Afzaal Tahir, told that their crops had been ruined due to water logging as a result of excess water supply to the canal. They said that if water supply to the canal was not decreased, their wheat crops would be destroyed completely. The MNA assured them that he would talk to the Punjab chief minister on this issue. Later, the MNA visited the fields of Chak 778/GB, 698/GB, 697/39-GB, 694/36-GB, 703/45-GB and 702/44-GB, where he himself witnessed that water had ruined crops.

Toba Tek Singh.(www.apnapirmahal.com)01-03-2015:A team of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Wednesday night raided Pirmahal Chak 674/15/GB and arrested an accused who was involved in sending people abroad illegally.The FIA arrested Mudassar Hussain under section 17/22 of EO. He was arrested on charges of extorting money from people on the pretext of sending them abroad through unfair means.

Toba Tek Singh.(www.apnapirmahal.com)01-03-2015:A truck helper was crushed to death when he was checking wheels of the truck on Thursday on Toba-Shorkot Cantonment road.According to Chuttiana police, Zameer Hussain, of Muzaffargarh, was checking tyres of the truck but he slipped and wa Toba Tek Singh.(www.apnapirmahal.com)26-02-2015: A short video clip of a folksinger from Kamalia went viral and gained so much popularity that more than 260,000 people viewed and thousands shared it in just seven days on Facebook.It was actually uploaded by a local youth who recorded the clip with his mobile phone camera when he noticed the singer on a street while singing Baba Bulleh Shah’s couplet ‘Allah Hoo’.This man is Sain Mukhtiar, 65, - resident of Mohalla Baghai Wala - who is earning his living as a street singer for the last 50 year.He told reporters on Tuesday night that he had learned singing from Sain Sattar, who was also from his tribe. The street singing as a profession was on the verge of extinction as it was no more a viable economically, he added. However, he said, his son Nadeem - the youngest of the five - was learning from him.Mukhtiar said he was fond of singing Sufi poetry of Hazrat Mian Muhammad Bakhsh and Bulleh Shah, and well-appreciated by people. He rued the fact that he could not promote himself to the big stage because of zero patronage.