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| December 8, 2005 | Thursday | Ziqa’ad 5, 1426 |
Govt urged to scrap dam plan
LARKANA, Dec 7: Activists of the Sindh National Party and the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Students Federation took out a procession here on Wednesday to protest against the proposed construction of the Kalabagh dam. Nasrullah Abro, a leader of the SNP, led the procession.
The protesters after marching through various roads of the city reached the press club and demonstrated there.
They said construction of the dam would ruin thousands of acres of fertile land, echo system and mangrove forests in Sindh.
The protesters stressed upon the nationalist political parties to show unity among them to protest against the dam.
The activists of the STPSF were led by the party’s district president Tariq Jatoi.
The activists also observed hunger strike on the occasion.
The STPSF leaders said that the federal government wanted to construct the dam despite the fact that Sindh, NWFP and Balochistan assemblies passed regulations against it.
The central president of the People’s Youth Organization of the Shaheed Bhutto faction, Ghulam Rasool Umrani, and Abdul Waheed Junejo visited the hunger strikers camp outside the local press club and called upon the government to stop such controversial projects.
PPP: District People’s Party Parliamentarians president Ayaz Soomro has asked the city body of the party to reform union councils in the district after the local body elections.
He was presiding over a meeting of the party here on Wednesday.
He said that the party’s city chapter had not taken proper part in the LB polls.
Mr Soomro said that office-bearers of the Larkana PPP would face disciplinary action if they failed to come up to the mark.
He criticized the government for failing to run true democracy in the country.
The PPP leader said that the next year would be the last one of the present government.
He said that he was optimistic that there would be a democratic government in 2006 in the country and Benazir Bhutto would be leading the government.
The meeting also discussed the prevailing political situation in the country.
EXAMINATIONS: District Nazim Mohammad Bakhsh Arijo has declared the Government Pilot Higher Secondary School as a prohibited area and imposed section 144 during the supplementary examinations of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) part-I and II.
The order would remain effective for seven days.
The order said that no student should carry arms and ammunition during the examinations.
The nazim said that action would be taken against violators of the order.
The order also banned the assembly of five or more persons around the examination centre within the radius of 100 yards.
All Photostat shops would remain close during the papers.
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