MIRPURKHAS, July 6: The tail-end farmers of Mirpur distributary held a demonstration outside the press club here on Tuesday to protest against water theft by influential landlords in connivance with irrigation department officials.
Carrying banners and placards, they raised slogans against the irrigation officials and influential landlords involved in water theft.
Speaking on the occasion, Abdul Rehman Panhwar, Haji Asmatullah and others demanded that the director of the Nara Canal Area Water Board should seek deployment of Rangers along the distributary to curb water theft. They regretted that due to water theft, fertile land at tail end of the distributary had turned barren and the farmers had suffered loss.
SUICIDE: A youth, Kanji Meghwar, attempted suicide by taking pesticide near Thomas Mori in the Kot Ghulam Mohammad taluka on Monday night. He was taken to the taluka hospital in Kot Ghulam Mohammad town, where he died.
He was married about one month back. The motive behind his suicide could not be ascertained. Another youth of Jhuddo town reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a fan in Memon Kunri village, Kunri taluka.
Abdul Rehman, 20, son of Mohammad Saleh Sheedi, had gone to the village a few days back to visit his sister. There, he insisted on getting engaged. When his wish did not come true, he committed suicide. The body was taken to the Kunri taluka hospital for autopsy.
