December 25, 2006	Monday	Zilhaj 03, 1427

Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window).

SUKKUR, Dec 24: Activists of All-Parties Action Committee on Sunday staged a big rally, which ended in a sit-in at the Clock Tower protesting against increasing civic problems, lack of sanitation, highhandedness of Hesco and SSGC and growing lawlessness.

The activists of the component parties of the committee Pakistan People’s Party, Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party, Sindh National Front, Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, Awami Tehrik, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf and Sukkur Shehri Ittehad began march from Teer Chowk and gathered at Clock Tower where they observed a sit-in for two hours.

Mushtaq Surhio, Shahzado Bhutto, Ghulam Mustafa and local leaders who led the protest blasted the district and taluka governments and said that heaps of garbage and sewage on all the main roads and bazaars of the city were causing health hazards and posing impediments to the commuters and pedestrians.

The supply of contaminated water by TMA had added to people’s miseries and many especially children had fallen prey to gastroenteritis after drinking water but the authorities were busy only in lip service, they said.

Criticising the officials of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) they said that besides the curse of hours long load-shedding, breakdowns and shutdowns, the company was in the habit of issuing inflated bills to its poor consumers.

The company resorted to this practice just to cover line losses from electricity theft, which was committed in collusion with its own officials, they charged, demanding that Hesco high-ups transfer all the corrupt officials.