September 20, 2006	Wednesday	Sha'aban 26, 1427

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NAWABSHAH, Sept 19: The Nawabshah taluka council has issued notices to residents of over 116 illegal colonies of the city for immediate registration with the municipal administration.

Talking to journalists here on Tuesday in the press club, Taluka Nazim Abdul Rauf Khan said the colonies established in the surroundings of the city were illegal as they had not completed the legal formalities mentioned in the Sindh Local Government Ordinance.

The residents had been directed to submit details of sewerage, electricity, water supply provided in the colonies of the taluka municipal administration, he said.

He said that all the sewerage lines were being replaced. Encroachment was a non-bailable crime according to the SLGO and strategy was being devised to remove encroachments from the city, he added.

He informed that roads were being constructed from development funds of three senators of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.

MINOR DIED: A minor, Mohammad Ibrahim, 2, son of Mohammad Hashim Chhutto, fell into an open manhole near Naya Naka and died here on Tuesday.

nazim criticised: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-backed members of the district council have accused the district government of discrimination and ignoring development works in their union councils.

Talking to reporters at a press conference here on Tuesday in the press club, Shahpur Jehanian UC Nazim Khalid Arain,; Thatt UC Nazim Hanif Chandio,, Ahmed Bughio UC Nazim Ghulam Mustafa Soomro, Haberi UC Nazim Aijaz Dahiri and Mumtaz Dahiri said the district nazim had ignored the opposition during her last and current tenure.

They alleged that the nazim had ignored 30 union councils of the Awami Ittehad in the ongoing development schemes of Rs43 million as well as 177 new schemes.

They said six schemes of the Citizen Community Boards had also not been passed from the district council and none of the nazims of the Awami Ittehad had been given zakat form for the poor of their area.