September 20, 2002	Friday	Rajab 12, 1423

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LARKANA, Sept 19: The city municipal staff, including sanitary workers, continued strike for the sixth day on Thursday even after release of three employees from the prison.

Abdul Hamid Pathan, chairman, the Municipal Employees Union (CBA), told newsmen on Thursday that pen-down strike of the clerical staff and strike of sanitary workers would continue till the payment of their three-month salaries.

The strike has crippled municipal affairs but the taluka Nazim, instead of trying to resolve the crisis, has preferred to stay away in Karachi for his personal work.

Sanitation situation is getting worse in the city as overflowing gutters has left roads and streets flooded with drainage water.

The suspension of routine cleanliness work has also affected the city’s cleanliness, which is already not good.

The pen-down strike by the clerical staff has also severely affected the office work of the municipal corporation.

The labour leaders— Hussain Bakhsh Kanasro, Dost Mohammed Shahani and Manzoor Ali Soomro— were released on Thursday from central prison after the chief officer of Larkana Municipal Corporation Zamir Abro stated before the fourth judicial magistrate that a concocted FIR was registered against them.

The magistrate ordered to dispose of the FIR and release the workers.

The released workers were brought, in a rally, to the municipal office where the leaders of the municipal employees announced that the strike would continue till the payment of three-month salaries to the workers.

HUNGER STRIKE: A group of Awami Tehrik (AT) activists protesting against the abolishment of Sindh’s representation in the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) observed a hunger strike in Jinnahbagh on Thursday. The activists were led by Abrar Qazi.