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| April 17, 2003 | Thursday | Safar 14, 1424 |
Jirga settles Bugti, Jakhrani dispute
SUKKUR, April 16: A Jirga of Bugti and Jakhrani tribes, held at RD-109, near Gashkori Deh, near Jacobabad, on Wednesday, settled the dispute between the two tribes.
According to the Jirga decision, the Bugti tribe would have to pay Rs300,000 as compensation for killing a Jakhrani tribesman and Rs50,000 for injuring a man of the same tribe.
Hair Din Jakhrani had been killed and Abdul Majeed Jakhrani injured in clashes between the two tribes.
The dispute between the tribes arose after the Kashmor killing, in which 15 persons, including a Jakhrani tribesman, were killed and 18 persons were injured on March 31.
On Wednesday evening, about 100 Bugti tribesmen, led by Ghulam Mohammad Bukhsh Qalandrani and Abad Khan Kalper, met Lakhi Mithal Khan and Sundoo Khan, the elders of the Jakhrani tribe.
After holding negotiations, it was decided that the Bugti tribe would pay the compensation.
Informed sources told this correspondent that an influential Sardar of the Bugti tribe had shown his consent to pay the compensation money to settle the dispute.
PML-Q: Muslim League-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Sindh Chief Minister Ali Mohammad Mahar will address a public meeting in Ghotki on April 21.
Giving details of the meeting at a press conference on Tuesday, Sukkur PML-Q general-secretary Ameer Bux Mahar and district president Khadim Ali Awan said the meeting was a part of the party’s masses-contact drive which was being started from Sindh.
Mr Shujaat would arrive in Ghotki on April 20.
TALUKA COUNCIL: Ten members of the Kandhkot Taluka Council, at a meeting of the council held on Tuesday, expressed their resentment over spending of development fund of the taluka on uplift works in the Kashmor taluka.
They said Rs2,200,000 had been released for carrying out development schemes in the Kandhkot taluka but the amount was spent in the Kashmor taluka.
They demanded of the Sindh chief minister and other authorities concerned to hold an inquiry into the matter.
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