April 07, 2008	Monday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 29, 1429

NAWABSHAH, April 6: Scions of Syed Nawab Shah have decided to launch a mass campaign against a call for renaming the Nawabshah district made in a recent Sindh Assembly resolution.

Syed Ghulam Mohiuddin Shah alias G.M. Shah, great grandson of Syed Nawab Shah, told this correspondent on Sunday that the Syed family had decided in principle to approach a court of law regarding the renaming of Nawabshah as Shaheed Benazir district as proposed in a recent Sindh Assembly resolution.

He said that a meeting of Syed family would be called in a couple of days to chalk out a strategy to counter any such move.

In this regard local traders, senior citizens, political parties and other organisations would also be contacted, he added.

Meanwhile, Ziaul Hassan Lanjar, Nawabshah taluka president of the PPP, said that it was a great honour that the district was being renamed after Ms Benazir Bhutto.

He said that the notification of renaming would also be issued very soon after which five large gates would be erected at the main entry points of district.

The main entrance to district at Sakrand would be named as Bab-i-Benazir Bhutto, the gate at Quaid-i-Awam University of Engineering and Technology as “Bab-i-Bilawal” and gate at Sanghar road as “Bab-i-Asif Zardari, he added.

He said that the people of Nawabshah felt proud over the owner they had been bestowed upon.