September 02, 2008	Tuesday	Ramazan 1, 1429

LARKANA, Sept 1: The Larkana taluka council that met here on Monday after the suspension of Taluka Nazim Qurban Ali Abbasi, rejected unanimously the revised budget for 2007-08.

Acting Nazim Yasir Junejo who presented the budget for 2008-09 said that the finance, budget and accounts committees had recommended rejection of the revised budget, arguing that the suspended taluka nazim had exceeded the expenditure allocated in the budget.

Dr Aftab Mastoi, chairman of finance committee and its members Ali Gohar Sangi and Haji Khan Abbasi, called for rejecting the revised budget and the entire house except Nisar Luhar of Khushhal Pakistan Panel supported the proposal.

Nisar Luhar said that he had not been provided the copy of the budget and he had not even been informed about the recommendations of the finance committee.

He alleged that political victimisation had begun after suspension of taluka nazim.

The council later unanimously passed the surplus budget of Rs219,093,116 for 2008-09 amid feeble voices of opposition from a lone member of Khushhal Pakistan Panel.