May 18, 2003	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 15, 1424

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KHAIRPUR, May 17: The chairman, JSQM, Basheer Khan Qureshi, has said it was the height of injustice that non-local people were being employed in the Sawan Gas Field and Qadam Gas Field, Naro Taluka, Khairpur district.

He said this while speaking at a hunger strike camp where the people were protesting against the employment of outsiders in the gas companies in Naro Taluka here on Saturday.

He said that minerals and oil have been found in Sindh but people from a particular province have been employed in the fields.

He said that according to international law, the inhabitants of the area where natural resources are found have first right over them.

Talking about the scarcity of water, the JSQM chairman said that there was already scarcity of water in Sindh, while the greater Thal canal project would increase the water shortage.

PROTEST: The villagers of the Ali Mardan Tunio village held a protest demonstration in Hingorja on Saturday against the use of substandard material in road construction.

They told newsmen that substandard material was being used in the construction of the road from Nau Lakhi to Naseer Mohammad Tunio.

KIDNAPPED: Some unknown armed men kidnapped a girl, Zarina Mallah, daughter of Pehalwan Mallah, from the Ranjho Rajpar village, near Kot Diji, late Friday night.

The armed men beat the girl’s parents when they offered resistance.

The area police had registered no case till the filing of this report.

THREE INJURED: Three people — Jameel Shahid, Soomar Shaikh and Zaman Khan — were injured when the truck they were travelling on touched a live electric wire in the Ghulam Murtaza Leghari village, near Thari Mirwah, late Friday night.

SUICIDE: A 19-year-old youth, Masood, committed suicide by taking pesticide over some domestic problem in the Bego Khan village, near Kot Diji, on Friday night.