January 27, 2008	Sunday	Muharram 17, 1429

THATTA, Jan 26: PPP leader Ms Sassui Palijo claimed that four children and two blind men have been implicated in false FIRs at the instigation of the Shirazis.

She said this while presenting them before the media at a press conference here on Saturday.

They were three schoolchildren and a shepherd boy with fractured limbs who received injuries in a firing incident and two blind men who have developed psychiatric disorders, she claimed, after being implicated in loot and arson cases registered in Mirpur Sakro following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

She said they were the ‘victims of police atrocities’ and had falsely been booked in different cases.

The PPP candidate for PS-85 seat, Mirpur Sakro, Ms Sassui Palijo said while talking to journalists that the children were so harassed and often chased by police that they cannot even go to school.

Shahid Chandio, 8; Razzaq Samejo, 7; Kashif Shah, 7, were all schoolchildren while the shepherd boy, Darhoon Jogi, 12, had been critically injured in a firing allegedly by Shirazis on Sassui Palijo’s election camp in Bohara recently.

She said that Thatta was exceptional in a way in the entire province where 125,000 people including blind men and children were implicated in 254 FIRs.