04 April 2004	Sunday	13 Safar 1425

SUKKUR, April 3: One person was killed and two others were kidnapped by armed bandits in the Bhanbhero village near Garhi Yasin, Shikarpur, on Saturday morning.

The man killed, who was performing duty on a fish pond, was identified as Aijaz.

Ayaz and Nazar Mohammad Mahar were kidnapped.

On receiving information about the incident, a large number of Mahar tribesmen chased the bandits and, according to reports, an encounter took place between them. However, the bandits escaped.

PROTEST: Naib Nazims and councillors took out a procession on Saturday and staged a sit-in at the Thul taluka municipal office to protest against unhygienic conditions in the area and use of substandard material in development works.

They criticized the taluka Nazim for his apathy regarding the issue and accused him of corruption.

SHOT DEAD: Bandits shot dead landlord Mohammad Umer Shar and took away his tractor in the Machko police station jurisdiction on the Sindh-Punjab border area on Saturday.

CONVICTION: The judge of Anti-Terrorism Court-II, Sukkur and Larkana, Riaz Ahmed Rajput, here the other day convicted five people of kidnapping for ransom and sentenced them in absentia to undergo life imprisonment twice.

The court also ordered to forfeit movable and immovable property of the convicts.

The convicts are Ali Gul Shar, Ali Hassan Shaikh, Hussain Bhutto, Miro Shaikh and Ghulam Qadir Shaikh.

The sentences will run concurrently and start after the arrest of the convicts.