February 4, 2002	Monday	Ziqa’ad 20, 1422

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LARKANA, Feb 3: The offices of the Larkana Municipal Corporation (LMC) are being shifted to the suburban area of Larkana city to facilitate a particular business community, it was reliably learnt on Sunday.

The building, where the LMC offices are presently situated, was first constructed in 1885. The Municipal Committee Larkana office was set up there with the formation of Larkana as a district in 1901.

The present site covers an area of 10 acres.

Most people including the employees of the LMC itself are surprised at the decision of the Larkana town Nazim, Nazir Ahmad Shaikh, to shift the offices of the LMC to the partially-abandoned Public Health Department offices, near the Sachal Sarmast residential colony, without providing a logical reason for doing so.

The Municipal employees union and various trade union organizations have taken exception to the decision and are likely to oppose it.

Mr Shaikh is feeling uncomfortable in having the old building, whose foundation stone was laid by the late Sir Shahnawaz Khan Bhutto, demolished.

SKIN DISEASE: Two teams consisting of 13 doctors will undertake an extensive survey regarding the outbreak of Leishmanisis in the districts of Larkana and Dadu.

The teams will work in close coordination with the WHO and the National Institute of Health.

One team consists of seven doctors from Larkana and the other six from Dadu.

Dr Farooque Rehman Soomro will be the in charge of the Larkana team. He said that the following areas will be surveyed in Larkana District: Warah, Kambar, Shahdadkot, Mirokhan, Dokri, and Larkana city.

Both the teams will be completing their survey within a week, Health Department sources told this correspondent on Sunday.

Keeping in view the intensity of the epidemic, a WHO official, who works in the East Mediterranean region, arrived here from Islamabad on Sunday and will be supervising the Dadu team.

SDA: The Sindh Democratic Alliance (SDA) will field candidates against the PPP in the coming elections and “offer a tough time to the PPP in the province”, claimed Qurban Abbasi, divisional coordinator of the SDA, while talking to newsmen on Sunday.

He said that the SDA would enter into an alliance with all political parties with the sole exception of the PPP.

JOURNALIST DIES: A senior journalist and former president of the Larkana Press Club, Ghulam M. Khoso died on Sunday. He was 69.

He was buried in his ancestral graveyard.