KARACHI, July 19: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has ordered release of two Thai women from the Karachi Central Prison.

A handout issued here on Wednesday said that the women were patients of Aids. They had been ordered to be released on humanitarian grounds and repatriated to their country of origin.

The chief minister has also ordered payment of Rs100,000 each for those who died in the March 2 bomb blast near the US Consulate in Karachi, besides Rs3.1 million to 54 people injured in the blast, as compensation.

Meanwhile, the chief minister issued orders for testing at the PCSIR laboratory of the wheat stocked at government godowns.

He issued the order following complaints of the stocks having turned unfit for human consumption. There were also complaints of misappropriations.

He said it had to be ascertained whether the wheat had actually become spurious or the officials wanted to misappropriate the same.

According to another handout, the chief minister has reconstituted Governing Body of the Sindh Textbook Board.

The new body comprises Secretary Agriculture Muhakimuddin Qadri and Special Secretary Education Karim Bux Sarohi being government nominees; and A.W. Qazi, Senator Abdul Ghaffar Qureshi and Qazi Shaukat being non-government members.—PPI