January 11, 2003	Saturday	Ziqa'ad 7, 1423

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HYDERABAD, Jan 10: The Sindh Hari Committee has demanded that Sindh should be given its due share of water and the prices of sugarcane, rice, wheat and cotton should be fixed at Rs70, Rs300, Rs350 and Rs1,000 per 40 kg, respectively.

This was demanded the other day at the meeting of the central executive of the peasants’ organization, which was presided over by Comrade Azhar Jatoi.

Expressing grave concern over the closure of Zaunr Shakh, Katchhar Shakh and Miran Khori Shakh, it demanded of the irrigation department to release water in these channels immediately.

The meeting decided to hold public meetings in different villages of the province to create awareness among the people about the problems confronting the province.

STPP: The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party has accused Punjab of conspiring to destroy the sugar industry of Sindh to capture the entire market of sugar.

Talking to delegations of growers from Badin and Thatta at the Taraqqi Pasand House here on Thursday, the general secretary of the party, Dr Hameed Memon, and the deputy general secretary, Hote Khan Gadhi, said that the sugar industry was providing succour to thousands of landholders and tens of thousands of farm workers and it had also played a pivotal role in the development of the province.

The Taraqqi Pasand leaders called upon the Sindh government and the federal minister for industries to intervene and save the sugar industry of Sindh and ensure the payment of fixed price to the growers.

HUNGER STRIKE: The Nazim and councillors of the union council No.3 Qasimabad have decided to stage a 10-day-long hunger strike from Jan 12 to protest against the denial of basic facilities and infrastructure to the people of Qasimabad.

A handbill distributed by the action committee of the union council stated that the elected representatives during the past 17 months had agitated the problems of the people at all fora but the provincial and the district governments had turned a blind eye toward the predicament and miseries of the people.

The handbill criticized the government for insanitary conditions in Qasimabad, saying that all the gutters in Qasimabad were overflowing.