KHAIRPUR, Feb 1: The district administration has recommended to the Sindh government to ban the entry of 24 ulema of different sects in the district during Muharram.

The ulema are: Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haqqani (Rahim Yar Khan), Maulana Mehmood Shah Turrabi and Maulana Abdul Majeed (Dera Ghazi Khan), Maulana Yousuf Mujahidi (Jhang), Maulana Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro and Ali Akbar Mallah (Larkana), Maulana Khalil Ahmad, Maulana Atta Mohammad, Maulana Mohammad Murad, Badaruddin Hussaini Depar, Abdul Razzaq Hyderi and Maulana Syed Abdullah Shah Bukhari (Sukkur), Syed Mushtaq Shah and Maulana Abdul Majeed Nadeem (Multan), Maulana Abdul Rahim Sikandari (Sanghar), Maulana Syed Hussain Shah (Qambar), Prof Abdul Hakeem Solangi (Hyderabad), Zakir Ghulam Shabbir Chandio (Nawabshah), Maulana Malang Mukhtiar Hussain (Lahore), Zakir Ghulam Qadir (Sheikhupura) and Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi and Maulana Tajuddin Hyderi (Faisalabad).

CASE REGISTERED: The Gambat police on Tuesday registered the murder case of two men against 12 people.

The accused included Qamaruddin, Altaf, Azam, Mohammad Bachal, Riaz, Irshad, Naseem, Nadir Ali, Mehboob, Abbas and Niaz.

Abdul Karim, 35, and Ali Nawaz, 19, had been killed in a clash between two rival groups of the Ghumro community on Jan 6 over a matrimonial dispute.

Meanwhile, people of one of the groups, led by Niaz Hussain Ghumro and Ali Nawaz Ghumro, took out a procession and observed a token hunger strike on the court road here on Wednesday.

They said that despite registering an FIR, police had taken no action against the nominated people.

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