HYDERABAD, Oct 28: A group of activists of the Pakistan People’s Party, belonging to Tando Mohammad Khan, observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Monday to protest against the alleged rigging in PS-53.
Talking to newsmen, Mohammad Ali Qureshi, who led the protest, said polling agents of the PPP candidate, Syed Mohsin Shah Bukhari, were manhandled at many polling stations.
He alleged that with the connivance of the polling staff, ballot boxes were stuffed with bogus votes.
He demanded of the chairman of the Election Commission to order the recounting of votes.
SIX ARRESTED: The Hyderabad region police have arrested six criminals and recovered four pistols and two guns along with three bullets and eleven cartridges in Badin, Shahdadpur, Sanghar and Umerkot.
PAYMENT: The cane commissioner, Sindh, Mohammad Siddiq Memon, here on Monday directed owners/occupiers of sugar factories to make payments of the purchased sugarcane within one week.
He said the occupiers of the factories would have to pay a mark up of Rs18.5 per cent if they did not make the payments within one week.
Meanwhile, it was notified that the minimum support price of sugarcane had been fixed at Rs43 per 40kgs.
STBB OFFICE: The chairman, Sindh printers, publishers and booksellers association, Mr Naseem-us-Seher, has condemned the alleged attempts by an NGO to take over the possession of the field office of the Sindh Text Book Board, Jamshoro, located at Clifton, Karachi.
In a statement issued here the other day, he said the field office was the property of the STBB but the head of an NGO was trying to take over the possession of the office, either by purchasing it or renting it.
He complained that the authorities were confused about the future of the STBB, and it was not clear whether they wanted to deregulate it or not. He appealed to the governor to order an investigation into the matter.
