March 28, 2008	Friday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 19, 1429

LARKANA, March 27: “The US is interfering in the formation of new government in Pakistan and the PPP-led government will retain foreign policy of former setup,” said Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto) Chairperson Ghinwa Bhutto.

“The visit of US Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher to Pakistan and their meeting with politicians is a proof of it”, she said in a statement.

The government was trying to conceal actual agenda of their visit and giving false impression by saying the Parliament will be sovereign and it will take all decisions, she said.

“These officials arrived before the formation of Cabinet which indicates the US nod on names and portfolios,” she said.

She said the constituting government in the name of ‘moderation’ under a ‘deal’ by Asif Zardari will protect what she called the US ill-intentions and agenda of expansionism in the region.

She said new rulers like the past one, putting country’s integrity at stake, would continue pro-American domestic and foreign policy and added PPP (SB) would continue opposing such policies with the help of masses.

Protest: Relatives of a Forest Officer killed in Garhi Yasin on Wednesday and forest officers from all over Sindh took out a procession in protest against the murder, on Thursday.

The procession started from Empire Road after the burial of Muhammed Tafiqu Shaikh. Participants staged a sit-in at Jinnahbagh roundabout and observed token hunger strike outside local press club. They demanded early arrest of killers.

They told journalists that they were feeling insecure under deteriorating law and order situation in the area.

Activists of the Sindh Shehri Ittehad protesting the kidnapping of vegetable commission agent Jawed Qureshi, took out a procession from the vegetable market.

After a token shutter down strike in the vegetable market the labour union also joined the protest.

Protesters marched on the main roads of the city, assembled at Jinnahbagh roundabout and staged a sit-in. Later they demonstrated outside local press club.

Carrying banners, placards they chanted slogans against the lukewarm attitude of police for it had failed to recover the trader They hoped that with the posting of new DPO Sultan Khwaja, the trader will be recovered soon.

CLASH: A man was killed and another injured when they traded fire with their rivals over a land dispute at Old Bus Terminal.