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HYDERABAD, June 11: Members of the Hyderabad High Court Bar Association and the District Bar Association here on Saturday held a joint demonstration against registration of what they called false cases against human rights activist Jam Saqi, his wife and lawyer Arbab Murad Ali. Speaking on the occasion, High Court Bar Association president Yousuf Laghari alleged that the Sindh government was victimizing Mr Saqi, his family and Mr Ali on political grounds.
District Bar Association president Chaudhry Bashir Ahmad warned the government that lawyers would come out on the streets and launch a movement against the government if the cases against Mr Saqi, his family members and Mr Ali were not withdrawn.
He said Bar associations were not political parties but members of the associations believed in the sanctity of human rights and would not tolerate human rights violations.
Dilbar Khan Laghari said Mr Saqi was a human rights activist and not a terrorist as he was being portrayed.
Ehsan Gul Dahri said lawyers would not remain silent on human rights violations and demanded that Mr Saqi’s wife should be released forthwith and false cases against Mr Saqi, his wife and Mr Ali be withdrawn.
Sindh Bar Council member Allah Bachayo Soomro also spoke on the occasion.
HESCO: The chairman of the board of directors of Hesco, Abdul Majeed Memon, has said power supply issues between Hesco and the business community should be resolved through negotiations.
He was speaking at a reception hosted by the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Saturday.
He suggested that committees should be constituted to redress grievances of commercial and industrial power consumers at the lower level because the board of directors was responsible for formulating policies of the company.
Hesco chief executive Adeebul Hassan Rizvi claimed that line losses had been controlled to a certain extent.
He said successful talks had been held with the Sindh chief secretary about payment of dues outstanding against various government departments.
He said there were 250,000 illegal power connections and added that to stop the power theft, power connection rates had been reduced to Rs250. He said the remaining amount would be recovered in instalments through regular bills.
The Hesco chief said electronic meters would be introduced soon which would help control 90 per cent power theft.
The HCCI president highlighted problems of commercial and industrial power consumers due to frequent power breakdowns and issuance of detection bills.
