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HYDERABAD, Sept 3: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture has rejected the proposed construction of Akhori dam by the federal government. At its meeting held here on Sunday, leaders said that the dam would be more harmful for Sindh than the Kalabagh dam.
Syed Qamaruzzaman Shah presided over the meeting.
The meeting warned that if any attempt was made to construct Akhori dam, it would be strongly opposed.
It called upon the Sindh government to take notice of the dangerous dam and perform its due role in saving the province from destruction.
The meeting supported the report of water committee headed by A.N.G. Abbasi.
It claimed that the Abbasi report had rejected the construction of more dams unless decommissioning of Taunsa-Panjnad and Chashma-Jehlum link canals in Punjab.
Leaders said that if the Akhori dam was constructed, the entire Sindh would be converted into a barren land.
ATTENDANCE: The principal of the Government Degree College and Postgraduate Centre Latifabad, Prof Jameel Ansari, has said that 75 per cent attendance in classrooms was a necessary prerequisite for appearing in examinations.
In a statement issued here on Sunday, he said that classes for the 2006-07 year in all subjects in the college as well as in the postgraduate centre were in progress.
He said that examination forms of students who did not have 75 per cent attendance in classrooms would not be submitted to the university.
He urged the parents to ensure 75 per cent attendance of their wards in classrooms as no excuse would be accepted at the time of submitting examination forms to the university.
IMPERSONATOR: Police on Sunday reported to have picked up one impersonator who was roaming about in Rama Pir Fair in police uniform to extort money from gullible people.
He disclosed his name to police as Ghulam Mustafa Khaskheli.
He said that he was posted at police station in Karachi and had been deputed by higher authorities to visit the fair and take stock of the situation.
