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HYDERABAD, April 21: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture at its meeting here the other day condemned the illegal recovery of market committee fee in Sindh. The president of the chamber, Syed Qamaruzzaman Shah, presided over the meeting.
The meeting took strong exception to the establishment of illegal check posts by the market committee contractors on the roads and urged the Sindh agriculture department to remove these check posts immediately.
It reviewed the crop situation in Sindh especially cotton and paddy cultivation and demanded that the irrigation department should release water supply during the sowing season. It called upon the Sindh agriculture secretary to establish agro-processing zone in Nawabshah which had been approved in principle by the Sindh government.
CHAKKI OWNERS: The Hyderabad Atta Chakki Owners Association at an urgent meeting held here on Tuesday night protested against a ban on the movement of wheat and confiscation of 60 trucks loaded with wheat by the food department.
The meeting claimed that the ban on the movement of wheat by the food secretary and the confiscation of 60 trucks by the food department officials were illegal. The meeting observed that the ban would create a shortage of wheat in the city.
It decided to hold a protest demonstration outside the office of the deputy director food on Thursday (today) against the ban on the movement of wheat and the confiscation of loaded trucks of wheat which the chakki owners had purchased from growers.
CPP: The Communist Party of Pakistan has condemned the demolition of old settlements in Karachi and demanded that the Sindh government should provide protection to Sindhi settlements.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the secretary general of the party, Comrade Imdad Qazi said old villages in Karachi were the properties of Sindh is but the builders mafia tried to displace them from their ancestral homes.
Mr Qazi claimed that Sindh is had proprietary rights over these villages but the builders mafia and the government were in league and trying to displace these people by demolishing their settlements. He warned that nobody would be allowed to expel Sindh is from their own properties. He demanded that the government should provide protection to old settlements.
