October 12, 2003	Sunday	Sha'aban 15, 1424

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SUKKUR, Oct 11: The law enforcement agencies have been directed to prepare a comprehensive plan to detect illegal immigrants in Sindh in order to check their activities.

This was stated by Sindh chief minister Sardar Ali Mohammad Mahar while talking to newsmen at Ghotki on Saturday after inaugurating the Virtual University Campus.

Replying to a question about the deteriorating law and order situation in Sindh, the CM said his first priority was to create an investment friendly atmosphere for the foreign investors.

He said the number of illegal immigrants was on the rise in Sindh, therefore, the issue needed a careful attention at different levels from the security point.

He said the law and order would be maintained at all cost to give the people a sense of security.

The chief minister recalled a number of steps for women in the education sector to enable them to play an effective role.

He said it was the equal responsibility of the community to avail facilities provided by the government to raise the women literacy.

ACCIDENT: Cleaner Dawood was killed and Faiz Ahmed and Mureed Jan were injured when their truck (MNA-2217) went out of the control of its driver and fell into a ditch near Babburloi bypass on Friday.

In another accident, a Karachi-bound passenger bus (GA-7486) collided with a trailer on the National Highway in the jurisdiction of the Dubbar police.

As a result, bus driver Daulat Khan and passengers, Rafiq Ahmed, Rukhsana, Nisar, Mohammad Pervaiz, Saima, Sumera and Mrs Aurangzeb were injured.

They were shifted to the Sukkur Civil Hospital where condition of Saima, Ahmed and Khan is said to be critical.

Meanwhile, Mehboob Labano, who was injured in a collision between a rickshaw and a car here last week, died in a Karachi hospital on Thursday.

ARRESTED: The police arrested four kidnappers and got a hostage freed near Kashmor on Friday.

Four armed men kidnapped a motor mechanic, Ayaz Ahmed Mughal, from Dera Mour, and were taking him towards Punjab in a car.

When their car reached near the Shahi Wah bridge where a police outpost has recently been established, Mughal shouted for help.

Hearing his shouts, the police stopped the car, arrested the kidnappers and got Mughal released from their custody.

The police also recovered an official rifle from the possession of the arrested men who were identified as Mohammad Aslam, Ghulam Qazi, Lal Jan and Mehboob Alam. Aslam and Qazi are said to be the constables of the Punjab police.