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SUKKUR, March 26: Sixty-five rice mills in Kandhkot, Ghouspur, Karampur, Tangwani and Buxapur observed strike on the second consecutive day on Friday against a tax levied by the market committee on the transportation of rice.
More than 2,000 labourers remained without work due to the strike. Grain Market president Nand Lal and Rice Mills Association president Noor Khoso said officials of the market committee charged Rs500 per trawler and tractor trolley which was illegal and unjust.
They said they had no objection if they charged the tax from the vehicles bringing rice to their mills. They alleged the market committee officials charged tax from their vehicles at three different places. They said if the practice prevailed then they would continue the strike.
The market committee contractor Baldev Kumar said the tax was charged from the grain merchants and rice mill owners according to the schedule issued by the Sindh government.
RALLY: Hundreds of People's Party Parliamentarians workers held a protest rally in Thul town on Friday against the killing of MPA Abdullah Murad Baloch.
Speaking on the occasion, PPP district president Dr Fida Mirani condemned the Sindh government and said the police had failed to arrest the killers of Mr Baloch.
A resolution passed on the occasion demanded that the Sindh chief minister should resign. Because, they said, the government which could not safeguard the lives and property of the people had no right to remain in power.
KILLED: A man, Jurio Lund, 60, was beat to death by four accused in Imam Bux Lund village on Friday.
The accused Saddam, Zakria, Fakhar and Sana Lund fled after committing the crime. The motive behind the incident was said to be a dispute on a piece of land. The Yaroo Lund police registered a case against all the four accused.
