August 4, 2002	Sunday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 24,1423

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LARKANA, Aug 3: The activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) and the Sindh National Front (SNF), jointly protested against the rise in admission fees of the educational institutions and the detention of their workers. They also observed a hunger strike at the Jinnahbagh on Friday.

Speaking to the workers, the city president of the SNF, Mohammad Amin Kanasiro said the rise in the fees would compel the poor students to quit educational institutions.

Both organisations demanded the release of their workers. Labourers’procession: construction workers held a procession, which was lead by Faiz Chajiro, on Friday. They marched on the main roads of the city and converged at the city labour hall.

They demanded that the government should allot residential quarters to the labourers and asked the management of the workers welfare board to extend financial support to the labourers in the shape of dowry for their daughters.

KILLED: A man, Assadullah Kandhiro, was killed in the vicinity of Nasirabad town on Thursday night.

He was killed by five persons, over a land dispute, who escaped after committing the crime, said the police.

While, Javed Ahmed, the nephew of the deceased, contradicting the police, registered an FIR against Saeed Ahmed, Ayaz, Rafique, Amir Bakhsh and Abdul Halim Kandhro. So far the police have made no arrests.

BODY FOUND: The Rehmatpur police recovered a dead body of a young boy from the Rice Canal, on Friday, and handed it over to the Edhi centre for burial.

The doctors, who conducted the autopsy, said the deceased had marks of injury on the head.