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HYDERABAD, Aug 1: Spurious zinc fertilizer and old and ineffective pesticides were seized in Jacobabad on Saturday during raids by a special team of the agriculture extension wing.
Sindh agriculture extension director-general Malik Mohammad Akram told Dawn by telephone that the team had recovered 1,700 bags of zinc fertilizer and a huge quantity of pesticides with dates for safe use having expired.
He said FIRs had been registered against the accused. He said he constituted the team in the wake of growing complaints by people about the sale of substandard and spurious pesticides in the area.
DISPLACED FAMILIES: Families displaced during ethnic riots of 1988-90 held a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Sunday against inordinate delay in their rehabilitation.
Talking to journalists, Jahangir Subhopoto, Dur Mohammad Soomro and others said 60 acres of land in Sehrish Nagar, phase-II, had been earmarked for the rehabilitation of the displaced families years back but no practical steps had been taken in this regard.
They appealed to the Sindh chief minister to order the displaced families' rehabilitation without further delay. They warned that they would held protest demonstrations outside the Sindh Assembly, Governor's House and at Nine Zero if their grievances were not resolved.
DEAN: The Sindh governor has appointed Prof Ahmad Ali Shaikh, principal of the Sindh Law College, Hyderabad, as the dean of the faculty of law, University of Sindh, for three years.
RELIEF: The Sindh University vice-chancellor has allowed 15 per cent per month ad hoc relief to employees of the university in basic pay scales on terms and conditions of contract employees notified by the Sindh government.
