06 February 2004	Friday	14 Zilhaj 1424

KHAIRPUR, Feb 5: Diarrhoea, fever and cough diseases have spread in goats and cows in 20 villages of Gambat and Sobhodero talukas after recent rains.

Ripri, Baharo, Saidi, Sadiq Kalhoro, Razi Dero, Mohsin Shha, Bindi Motani, Mad, Piyalo Laik, Kamal Lashari, Hayat Shha, Seithar ja Lower, Anab and Saghiyoon are among the affected areas.

Many cattlehead have died of the diseases.

Area residents told journalists on Thursday that doctors of the animal husbandry department were demanding fees for treatment of their animals which the villagers could not afford.

PRICE HIKE: Sindh Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president MNA Maulana Asadullah Bhutto has said the Sindh government has failed to control price hike and provide employment and protection to the people.

He was talking to party activists at an Eid Millan party in Setharja on Wednesday night.

Maulana Bhutto said the Sindh chief minister was working only to save his chair and was busy to reconcile with his colleagues and the governor was serving his party interests. That was why the MMA had launched a protest movement and had given a seven-point charge-sheet to the Sindh government, he added.

He said Thal canal and Kalabagh dam projects were against the interests of Sindh and were a threat to the unity of the country.

SUICIDE ATTEMPT: Eighteen-year-old Bashir, son of Ghulam Shabbir Wassan, attempted to commit suicide by taking pesticide in the Jhando Mashaikh village near Ranipur on Wednesday night.

He was admitted to the Ranipur Taluka Hospital.