February 05, 2008	Tuesday	Muharram 26, 1429

HYDERABAD, Feb 4: Members of the Tando Mohammad Khan District Council at its meeting on Monday demanded that each union council should be given an amount of Rs2.5 million to make good the losses suffered by them during riots in the backdrop of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on December 27.

The session paid tribute to former Prime Minister late Benazir Bhutto for her services rendered in the cause of democracy, the country and the oppressed masses. The house observed five minutes silence at the start of the session for the departed soul.

Speaking on the occasion, Mir Furqan Ali Talpur, Mir Mashooq Ali Talpur, Haji Mohammad Siddique Samoon, Ali Ahmed Siyal and others termed the assassination of Benazir Bhutto as the murder of democracy.

They said that she was the greatest asset of Pakistan and the country had suffered an irreparable loss in her martyrdom. They said her services for the masses and the country could never be forgotten.

WALKOUT: The members also staged a token walkout from the house in protest against the sugar mills for their refusal to pay fixed sugarcane price to the growers.