SUKKUR, April 16: District Nazim Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has presided over a meeting regarding the implementation of the prime minister’s directive on upgradation of Government Girls Degree College Sukkur to a women university.

The meeting was held at the office of the principal of Government Girls Degree College Sukkur.

Director of IBA Sukkur Nisar Ahmed Siddiqui, Principal Government Girls Degree College Sukkur Professor Azra Tabbassum, and other officials attended the meeting.

The nazim directed the principal of the college to prepare a feasibility report of the project in consultation with the director of IBA Sukkur by ensuring complete data collection of enrolment, facilities and all other requirements for the university so that the whole region could be covered as per government policy.

The director of the IBA stressed upon the need to introducing and teaching subjects which address market’s requirement.protest: Hundreds of villagers staged a protest demonstration in Thull Town on Wednesday against a raid of Balochistan police on village Abdul Karim Katuhar in which twenty people were detained.

According to sources, a heavy contingent of Jaferabad (Balochistan) police led by Jaferabad DPO Khadim Hussain Rind raided and cordoned off the village.

The protesters claimed the police raided and ransacked the house of PML-F leader Sardar Bashir Katuhar.

He was not home at the time of the raid. The police took away three motorcycles and a car from there.

Later police also raided other houses and arrested 20 people, including Ali Nawaz, Mehram Ali, Ghulam Hussain, Asghar Ali, Eidan, and others.

Sources said that on contact the Jaferabad police claimed that Sardar Bashir was involved in the kidnapping of a man, Ravi Kumar, from Dera Allah Yar two months ago.

Sardar Bashir while talking to local newsmen on phone dismissed the allegation and said that the raid was a political victimisation of him, as he belonged to the PML-F.seminar: A pre-budget seminar organised by Sukkur Small Traders urged the government on Wednesday to reduce the rates of income tax and sales tax and abolish excise duty.

The president of the traders’ body Haji Mohammad Haroon Memon suggested in his address that the sales tax rate should be brought down to five from 15 per cent and that of income tax to one from five per cent. The withholding tax should be abolished altogether in the next budget on withdrawal of Rs25,000 or above, he said.

He called for exempting registered manufacturers and shopkeepers from paying tax on utility bills and stressed that the government should offer incentives to the traders who had always contributed to the welfare of country.

He said that the time had come for the PML-N and PPP, which had made several promises in their election campaigns, to fulfil them by preparing a people-friendly budget.