March 01, 2008	Saturday	Safar 22, 1429

HYDERABAD, Feb 29: PPP activists from Dadu district have asked the government to put the names of Liquat Jatoi and his brothers on the exit control list ‘to stop them from leaving the country.’

Addressing at a news conference at the press club here on Friday, Rais Nazeer Ahmed Chandio, Abdul Sattar Khoso and Mir Mazhar Hussain Chandio said that the Jatio brothers should be made to answer for the excesses committed in Dadu.

They accused the Jatoi brothers of being involved in corruption and suppressing people of Dadu over the past eight years.

They alleged the Jatois occupied thousands of acres in catchments forests by cutting trees and taking lease of lands at throwaway price. They said the Jatois had established their own state in catchments areas by ejecting people whose only source of livelihood were forests.

They said the days of tyranny were over as Ms Benazir Bhutto and her followers had sacrificed their lives to restore democracy in the country. They said the Jatoi brothers will now be held accountable not only for their alleged corruption but also for tyranny.

They called upon of the government not to allow Jatoi brothers to run away from the country. They called upon the people of Dadu to send proofs of corruption to the district leadership for publication of a white paper.

They said a no-confidence motion will be moved against the district and all taluka nazims of Dadu. They condemned the murder of teenager Shahjahan Qureshi before elections and condemned police for disposing of the case without investigation.

A petition had been filed in the Sindh High Court, they said, adding that the PPP will play its role in ensuring justice to the heirs of the boy.