November 27, 2005	Sunday	Shawwal 24, 1426

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MIRPURKHAS, Nov 26: A new railway station will be established at zero point on the Pakistan-India border, eight kilometres off Khokhrapar. Talking to journalists, Ghulam Rasool Memon, project director of maintenance of the Khokhropar-Mirpurkhas track, said the construction work had started. He said the railway department would provide all facilities at the new station, including temporary cabins of customs, FIA and immigration departments. He said the station would be 1,000 feet long, having a 300 feet shed.

Mr Memon said that after opening of the Khokhrapar-Monabao route, officials of customs, FIA and immigration depa-rtments would stay at Khokh-rapar to check documents of passengers at the railway station.

He said renovation of railway stations, Shadi Palli, Pithoro, Jamrao, Dhoronaro and Chhor would be completed soon.

Strike: A complete strike was observed by shopkeepers in Dhoro Naro, Umerkot on Saturday after the body of a villager Mohammad Rahim Shaikh 48, was found near a cotton ginning factory in the town on Friday.

Shopkeepers, led by Hashim Rajput and Nokomal Kohistani, staged a protest sit-in near Girhore bus stop in Doro Naro and demanded arrest of culprits. Police shifted the body to taluka hospital, Umerkot, for autopsy. The body was handed over to heirs.

Deen Mohammad Shaikh, deceased’s brother told newsmen that the deceased had been missing since Friday and he was informed that his body was lying near cotton ginning factory.

He said that his brother had no enmity with any person.

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