June 14, 2002	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 2, 1423

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DADU, June 13: A large number of growers of the Phakka waterway of Dadu Taluka staged a demonstration in front of the Dadu Press Club on Thursday to protest against the irrigation officials, Dadu.

The demonstrators were led by Hajjan Channa, Abdul Hameed, and Hafeez.

Carrying banners and placards they raised slogans against the irrigation officials of Dadu.

Talking to newsmen, Mr Channa said that the irrigation officials were selling the water to influential landlords.

He said that the influential landlords had broken the watercourses with the connivance of the irrigation officials and were stealing all the water of the tail-enders as a result of which the latter had not been able to sow their cotton and paddy crops.

A grower, Abdul Hameed, said that he had gone to the office of the SDO and executive engineer of irrigation but they refused to meet him.

He said that not a drop of water was available in their watercourses for drinking.

He appealed to the provincial minister and secretary of irrigation department to take strict action against the corrupt irrigation officials.

ACCIDENT: A boy, Nadeem Ali (8), son of Habibullah Hakro, died after he was run over by a Dadu-bound car on the Indus Highway near the Khairpur Nathan Shah town on Thursday.

The driver did not stop the car and escaped.