MIRPURKHAS: Hunger strike against Thal canal, Kalabagh dam
By Our Correspondent
MIRPURKHAS, Dec 13: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Students Federation observed a token hunger strike outside the press club in protest against construction of the greater Thal Canal and Kalabagh dam.
They staged a demonstration and demanded that the federal government should abandon, what they called, the anti-Sindh projects. They also condemned delay in the arrest of murderers of JSQM activists, Gul Bhatti and Liaquat Marfani. Mazhar Mirerani, Shamshad Mirerani, Aftab 'Inqilabi', Mehran Laghari and Niaz Mari observed hunger strike.
MMA: Workers and office-bearers of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal staged a demonstration in the Muslimabad area on Monday in protest against worsening sanitary situation in the city.
Speaking on the occasion, Sharif Saeedi, Lala Noor Mohammad and Zafar Iqbal said the TMA was receiving funds but failed to provide basic facilities to residents. They alleged that officials of the TMA were involved in misappropriation of funds.
They said that gutter water had accumulated in various areas because of chocked drains. They demanded that the president and prime minister should take notice of insanitation and order municipal authorities to clean the city.
PPP: A meeting of the Pakistan People's Party, cultural wing, was held here on Monday. Speaking on the occasion, activists demanded withdrawal of, what they called, false cases against Benazir Bhutto so that she could return to country. The meeting was presided over by the president of the PPP Sindh cultural wing, Sarfaraz Rajar.
PPP (SB): A meeting of PPP (SB), Mirpurkhas district, was held here on Monday. The district president of the party, Mr Shyam Sundar, presided over the meeting. Sindh general secretary, Younis Bhan, Zahir Hussain Shah, Shahid Panhwar and Ameen Baloch also attended the meeting.
The meeting decided that workers of the district would participate in the rally being staged in the lead of party chairperson, Ghinwa Bhutto, in Hyderabad on Dec 28.
PROBE: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has directed DCO Dr Mohammad Siddiq Memon to initiate an investigation into the sale of cotton to the Trading Corporation of Pakistan at Rs2,300 per bale by cotton ginners, who failed to procure it at the fixed price.
The directive followed a complaint by Haji Abdul Ghafoor Mahar, vice president of the Sindh Abadgar Board, Mirpurkhas, at a reception organized by Pakistan Muslim League leader Khadim Ali Shah in Khadim Ali Shah village on Sunday.
The chief minister asked the DCO to hand over the inquiry report directly to him. SAB officials had claimed that farmers had suffered huge losses because cotton was purchased from them at Rs700 per 40kg by ginners whom the TCP (Mirpurkhas zone) was giving reasonable price to maintain cotton rates.
