May 15, 2005	Sunday	Rabi-us-Sani 6, 1426

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DADU, May 14: The executive engineer of the Dadu southern irrigation division has said 890 cusecs of polluted water was released from the Manchhar Lake into the River Indus on Saturday. The official, Ishtiaq Ahmad Memon, told journalists that the water level of the lake was recorded at 108.7RL on Saturday.

He said 0.8 inches of water was flowing in the Nai Gaaj. He said 30,354 cusecs of water was flowing at downstream Sukkur Barrage and 60,014 cusecs of water at upstream.

STRIKE: On a call of the Citizens’ Action Committee, a shutter-down strike was observed in Bhan Syedabad on Saturday against the sale of a plot of the Government Boys High School.

Students of the school boycotted their classes.

Hundreds of people also took out a procession and held a demonstration on the Indus Highway near the town.

Their leaders, Mohammad Sadiq Memon, Abdul Majeed Memon and Ghulam Shabbir Buriro, criticized Mukhtiarkar of Sehwan for selling five acres of land of the school to influential people of Bubak.

They appealed to the Sindh chief minister to direct the Jamshoro DCO to take action against the Mukhtiarkar and cancel the deed.

KILLED: A thief was killed in an exchange of fire with inmates of a house in the Kathio village in Khairpur Nathan Shah on Friday night.

ELECTROCUTED: An electrician, Mohammad Achar, 22, was electrocuted in a house in the Dria Bund locality of Kotri on Saturday.

SUICIDE: One Hamzo Pathan 28, committed suicide by taking some pesticides over domestic problems in Kotri Site on Saturday.

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