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KHAIRPUR, Sept 5: A large number of growers of Chirkeno, Teekno, and Kharal minors continued their protest for the 11th consecutive day on Thursday against the irrigation officials for not supplying them water.
The growers, mostly tail-enders, marched near the canals and raised slogans against the irrigation officials.
They said that they had been deprived of their due share of irrigation water as a result of which their cotton, sugarcane, and other crops had been destroyed. They said it was difficult for them to feed their families because their only source of income was agricultural produce.
EIGHT LANDLORDS BOOKED: Eight landlords were booked in two separate FIRs by the Kotdiji and Faiz Ganj police on the charges of water theft on Thursday.
The sub-engineer, Irrigation, Mohabat Wah, lodged an FIR against the eight landlords — Mohammad Saffar, Inayatullah, Mohammad Bachal, Illahi Bux, Mahar, Ghulam Hussain, Ali Gul, and Ali Dino — alleging that they were involved in water theft by tampering with the water courses of the Vehoo Wah.
The other FIR was lodged by the Darogha, Irrigation, of Vehoo Wah against a landlord, Naimatullah Khand, who had been accused of tampering with the water course.
PROTEST: At least a dozen associations and organizations under the banner of the Citizens Alliance Khairpur on Thursday distributed pamphlets and displayed banners at various places in the town against the Hesco, Khairpur, for issuing detection bills and installing crystal meters.
Nazim slammed: Zafar Iqbal Bilal, the vice president of PML (Q), Sindh, and a candidate for PS-29, has alleged that the district and taluka Nazims of Khairpur were using their offices to favour the Pakistan People’s Party candidate, Syed Qaim Ali Shah.
