August 16, 2007	Thursday	Sha’aban 2, 1428

LARKANA, Aug 15: The chairman of Sindh National Front (SNF), Sardar Mumtaz Ali Khan Bhutto, has said the ‘killers’ are ruling Sindh whose only purpose is to inflict losses to the sons of soil.

Addressing a corner meeting in Ghulam Bhutto Village on Wednesday, he said that resources of Sindh were being looted and plundered since the inception of Pakistan which was now passing through a critical phase.

On the occasion, Mr Mohammed Mithal Bhutto, President of PPP unit-I along with his wife, who is a member of Taluka Council Larkana, announced to join SNF.

The SNF chief termed his party as a true nationalist political party that had never deviated from its principles, stand and commitment.

Initially, they were labelled as traitors and jailed but our stand stood vindicated when other political parties followed suit and started demanding provincial rights and even annexed such demand in their manifesto, he added.

Meanwhile, the former central leader of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), Faqeer Inayatullah Narejo met the Central Vice Chairman of SNF Amir Bakhsh Bhutto in Mirpur Bhutto on Wednesday and joined SNF along with his friends.

Protest: Flood affected people hailing from different villages of the Union Council Bohar held demonstration in Qambar under the leadership of Naib Nazim Union Council on Wednesday against unfair distribution of relief funds. Naib Nazim Atta Muhammed Kartiyo led the procession taken out from Jinnahbagh which also observed token hunger strike at the Bhutto Chowk. Later they demonstrated outside the local press club.

They alleged that the survey conducted by Mukhtiarkar to be unjust as he on the advice of Union Council Nazim had included names of unaffected people while excluding the genuine from the list.

They accused Mukhtiarkar for annexing names of unconcerned who greased his palm. They demanded an inquiry into the survey with the objective to providing relief to real flood affected.

Protest against robberies: The goods transporters kept their vehicles off the road while the vegetable market remained closed in Shahdadkot on Wednesday as a mark of protest against fragile law and order situation.

The transporters and whole sellers linked with vegetables trade held a general body in the market and later took out a procession. They converged on Koto-Moto chowk and staged a sit-in.

Addressing the protesters, Akbar Ali Brohi and others condemned the policefor their failure to check the increasing number of incidents of robberies on Shahdadkot-Ratodero and Shahdadkot-Garhi Khairo roads.