07 February 2004	Saturday	15 Zilhaj 1424

HYDERABAD, Feb 6: Awami Tehrik and Sindh Water Committee chief Rasool Bux Palijo has said Sindh is fighting a battle for its survival and its people are duty bound to take part in the battle.

He said this here on Friday while seeing off 20 cyclists of his party's student wing, Sindhi Shagird Tehrik, who were on their way to Karachi to take part in a rally against greater Thal canal to be staged on Feb 10.

He expressed the hope that Sindhi people would continue their struggle against the greater Thal canal and Kalabagh dam projects. Mr Palijo said the SST activists had always performed a leading role in the struggle against anti-Sindh conspiracies and the organization had propounded the cause of education and protected the institutions from hooligans.

Vishnu Mal, Azhar Buledi, Ghaffar Malik and Sohail Channar also spoke on the occasion. Thereafter the cyclists left for Tando Mohammad Khan where they would stay for the night and leave for Karachi via Thatta on Saturday.

It may be mentioned that the Anti-Greater Thal Canal Committee has planned to stage a rally outside the Karachi Press Club on Feb 10 against the greater Thal canal and Kalabagh dam projects.

PROTEST PLANNED: All Sindh Primary Teachers Association, district chapter, has threatened to launch a protest movement against the education EDO from Feb 9 for transferring teachers and "illegally" appointing supervisors.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the working committee of the association held here on Thursday and presided over by the acting president of the association, Hyderabad district, Shafi Sathio.

The meeting alleged that supervisors were illegally appointed and the teachers were redeployed outside the city.

It resolved that the primary teachers of the eight talukas of the district would hold a protect demonstration outside the press clubs here on Feb 9 and stage a march from the central office of the association to the press club on Feb 12.

On Feb 13, teachers would observe a token hunger strike outside the office of the EDO and a protest sit-in outside the Sindh Secretariat on Feb 19.