CNICs to be issued in Sindhi

Published June 1, 2002

LARKANA, May 31: The division bench of the Sindh High Court, circuit bench, Larkana, disposed off the petition filed by advocate Khalid Iqbal Memon against Nadra officials asking for issuing Computerized National Identity Cards in Sindhi language.

The application was disposed off after the Nadra representative made a clear statement before the court that soon NICs would be issued in Sindhi.

The bench comprised Justice Ali Aslam Jafferi and Justice Zawar Hussain Jafferi.

Inyatullah Morio pleading on behalf of the petitioner told this scribe on Friday that during the proceedings the additional advocate general Mohammed Bachal Tunio also supported the statement of the Nadra representative.

KIDNAPPED: Habib Ahmed Pathan, a resident of Drib mohalla, Shahdadkot, has lodged an FIR against Shabir Sodhar and two unknown persons for allegedly kidnapping his daughter Ferzana from the house on Friday

FIR lodged: Advocate Abdul Hussain Junijo has lodged an FIR with market police on Friday against four people alleging that they had kidnapped his son, Jam Halar.

He alleged that Mohammed Hassan Kalhorohad gave him a phone call on February 12 after his son had been kidnapped on Dec 18, 2001 and asked him to meet him near stadium.

He also nominated Umid Ali, Anwer Ali Kalhoro and Ahmed Panhyar in the FIR and alleged that Irshad Junijo, president of the Sindh National Front, (SNF), Larkana taluka, and his brother Ali Gohar, a local leader of PML(Q), were abetting the kidnappers.

The complainant told this scribe on Friday that he submitted the application to the district police officer (DPO), Larkana, who had ordered that the FIR be lodged.

He said that my son was kidnapped on Dec 12, 2001 and returned on March,4, 2002.

He said that the kidnappers demanded a ransom of Rs500,000 but he paid Rs300,000 as his son had been sold out in Jacobabad.

The case has been registered under section 365-A, 344, 346, 506/2 and 6/7 of the ATA.

Irshad Junijo was out to Hyderabad when this correspondent tried to contact him for comments in Dhamraho village.

COURT: The judge of extra joint and family court, Larkana, allowed two sisters, who refused to marry old men, to go with their mother. Saeedan and Ajeeban, residents of Sagyoon town near Khairpur Mir, had slipped away from their houses because their father wanted to sell them in Rs60,000 each to the old men and forcing them to marry them.

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