HYDERABAD, March 23: Cardiac surgeon (Dr) Rasool Bux, a resident of Goth Mohammad Bux Barham, UC Hatri, has appealed to the Sindh chief minister to order ejection of encroachers from the land of village mosque. He was speaking at a news conference at the Hyderabad press club here on Wednesday.

He said that though he was residing in Karachi but he had always considered it his sacred duty to serve the people of his village which had been named after his father.

He said the village mosque was in a dilapidated condition and it was also being used as an Eidgah.

He said that as the population of the village had increased, it could not cater to the needs of the faithful and expansion had become essential.

He said that the village mosque had its own adjacent plot but some miscreants had encroached upon the plot.

He said that he had approached respectable people of the area to prevail upon illegal occupants, but they refused.

He said that miscreants had sent false applications to authorities and unleashed propaganda against his elder brother Khuda Dino Bahram that the villagers were being ejected by force.

He made it clear that no force was being used to eject the encroachers from the plot of the village mosque.

Surgeon Rasool Bux appealed to the Sindh chief minister to order a high-level inquiry into the mosque plot and get the plot ejected from the encroachers for the expansion of the village mosque.