May 24, 2006	Wednesday	Rabi-us-Sani 25, 1427

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NAWABSHAH, May 23: Tail-end growers of Rahib Shah minor staged a demonstration here on Tuesday against what they termed an artificial shortage of irrigation water. Carrying placards inscribed with their demands and raising slogans against irrigation officials, protesters gathered in front of the local press club.

They accused the irrigation officials of selling water to influential landlords of the area. Non-availability of water in watercourses had hit about 4800 acres of land, they added.

The protesters said their cattle were dying due to the artificial water shortage.

Marvi UC Nazim Rano Khan Jalbani, former nazim Ali Gul Jalbani, Sher Mohammad Sabqi and Haji Ali Khan Jalbani were among the demonstrators.

SNAKEBITE: A teenaged boy, Peeral Dahiri, died due to snakebite in village Dum, near here on Tuesday. The boy, 19, was brought to the People,s Medical College Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.

WORKSHOP: District Coordination Officer Ahmed Bux Khokhar has advised his subordinates to learn planning.

Speaking at the inaugural session of a three-day workshop on the “Training of District Government Officials in Planning Process”, junior officials should learn about planning and finance from senior officials of their department.

Other officials also spoke at the inaugural session organized by the planning and development department in collaboration with the United Nation Children Fund (Unicef) at Darbar Hall, here on Tuesday. It will continue till Thursday.

KILLED: An man, Wahid Bux Brohi 75, was shot dead in village Haji Adam Brohi, near Sakrand, on Tuesday. No FIR was lodged till the filing of this report.

LOOTED: Three armed bandits looted thousands of rupees gold and also took away with Rs50,000 cash and other valuables from a house in Essarpura, here late on Monday.

The armed men barged into the house of Ishaque Malik, a councillor of UC-4, held his family hostage and committed the crime.

INJURED: One person was seriously injured while resisting an attempt to motorcycle snatching, on Monday night.

Syed Mehboob Shah was coming from the Dalda mills road when some armed men stopped him. On resistance, the men fired and injured him seriously, and fled.

The injured was admitted to the People’s Medical College hospital where he was stated to be in critical condition. No FIR was lodged till the filing of this report.

BOOKED: Five persons were booked here on Monday for encroaching forest land and setting forests on fire.

Range Forest Officer Younus Chandio lodged an FIR with the Sakrand police, stating that while on a visit to Pai Forest he had found that Ayaz Ali, Qadir Bux, Muharram, Abdul Hamid and Dilbar had encroached upon forest land in compartment No: 39-40. They were also setting trees ablaze. No arrests were made till the filing of this report.