Financial compensation for parents of drowned infant.

GUJRAT -- The Punjab government has released financial assistance of Rs800,000 for the parents of a three-year-old boy who drowned in a drain along Jail Road on July 7 last.

Deputy Commissioner Rizwan Qadeer handed over the cheque to Khurram Shahzad, the father of the deceased. Former Gujrat Municipal Corporation mayor Haji Nasir Mehmood, ex-PML-N MPA Imran Zafar and some traders of Railway Road were also present as the local PML-N leaders had recommended the Punjab government and district administration to issue the assistance.

Four people -- a child and three girls -- were killed in...

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