May 24, 2008	Saturday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 18, 1429

DADU, May 23: A caravan of sacked employees of Faran Sugar Mills arrived here on Thursday.

The employees were on a long march for their reinstatement.

The group of 426 terminated labourers of Faran Sugar Mills in Shaikh Bhirkio district of Tando Mohammad Khan were heading toward the grave of Ms Benazir Bhutto in Garhi Khuda Bux in protest.

Led by labour leaders, Abdul Latif Katiyar and Abdul Latif Mangwano, they staged a demonstration outside Dadu Press club.

As they reached the Dadu-Moro road, three of the marchers, Ghulam Rasool Thaheem, Qadir Bux and Vikio fell unconscious and were taken to taluka hospital in Moro.

Their leader Abdul Latif Katiyar said that Faran Sugar Mills was located in the constituency of a federal minister but he was not resolving the issue of 426 terminated employees of the mills.

He threatened that if they were not reinstated in their jobs, he and another employee, Qadir Bux Mallah, would set themselves on fire.Later the caravan proceeded to Garhi Khuda Bux.

WATER WOES: The residents of villages Koor, Buriro, Sanghar and Big Buriro of taluka Khairpur Nathan Shah staged a demonstration outside Dadu Press Club on Thursday to protest against acute water shortage in Bego Dero waterway.

They regretted that 30 water supply ponds of 20 villages had gone dried due to the shortage of water in Bego Dero waterway since past 20 days.

They said that over ten thousand people living in these areas and their cattle were not getting even drinking water.

The protesters said that they had approached to the irrigation department officials concerned but they did not release water in their waterway.

A protesting villager claimed that an executive engineer of Southern division Dadu had received bribe from growers of taluka Sehwan Sharif hence he closed water channels and waterways in Johi Branch, while water was flowing in waterways of taluka Khairpur Nathan Shah, Sita and Dadu.

He said that poor people were not getting drinking water in other parts of Dadu.

They appealed to the Sindh chief minister to take notice of this matter and direct the local irrigation official to release water.