May 28, 2006	Sunday	Rabi-us-Sani 29, 1427

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LARKANA, May 27: An under-trial prisoner, Abdul Rasool Magsi, escaped from the lockup of the Behram police station of the Qambar-Shahdadkot District on Saturday.

The accused, nominated in the FIR 32/2006 of 13-D, bent the bars of the lock-up and fled.

Head constables Abid Memon and Abdul Majeed Qadri, and constable Qurban Khokhar were suspended and arrested for investigations into the escape.

HOT DAY: Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts experienced on Saturday 50 degree Celsius temperature, according to the met office.

Roads wore a deserted look while reports from Qambar said that a boy, Mansoor Gopang, 6, died of heatstroke.

TEACHERS’ PROTEST: A procession was taken out here on Saturday from Deeni Madressah against the proposed ban on teachers unions.

Primary Teachers Association central general secretary, Liaquat Daidar, Asghar Shah and Mohammed Alam Khokhar led the protest held under the flag of the Sindh Employees Alliance.

Protestors carrying banners and placards, and chanting slogans staged a sit-in outside the Jinnahbagh.

Speaking on the occasion, leaders the employees alliance said banning teachers’ unions would be an unconstitutional and undemocratic act as it would tantamount to suppress the voice of teachers’.

They held the government and some influential people responsible for the dismal picture of education in the province. It was the government that murdered merit and installed its favourites on the key positions of the education department.