October 08, 2008	Wednesday	Shawwal 08, 1429

SHIKARPUR, Oct 7: PPP MNA Aftab Shaban Mirani has said that the democratic government will not betray people’s confidence and provide basic amenities without any discrimination as per aspirations of the people who struggled to defeat the opponents in general elections and brought the PPP into power.

He was talking to journalists at a ceremony to distribute forms of Benazir Bhutto Income Support Programme. He said that problems faced by the people were legacy of previous rulers which can not be resolved overnight.

However, he said, PPP under the leadership of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani was making all out efforts to resolve the outstanding problems like unemployment, poverty, price hike and law and order.

He claimed that no one would be rendered jobless as all resources were being utilised to provide jobs to youth who were braving hardships due to long span of unemployment created by the previous rulers.

He said credit goes to PPP for introducing two major projects of Benazir Income Support Programme and Youth Development Programme for providing temporary relief to the people who were facing unemployment.

Besides, he said recruitment of jobless youth in the government departments from grade 1 to 15 had started and thousands of youth would be absorbed in government jobs.

Later Mr Mirani launched the Benazir Income Support Programme while distributing the forms to poor women. Briefing the journalists, he informed that 8000 forms had been given to every MNA whether he/she belongs to ruling or opposition party for handing them over to the deserving women in their constituencies.

According to scheme, every deserving woman will get Rs1000 per month through post offices as a temporary relief.

INJURED: The manager of a CNG filling station, Liaquat Ali Arain, was seriously injured in the firing by armed bandits near Civil Hospital here on Monday when he was on his way on a motorcycle to a bank to deposit cash of the filing station.

Three armed motorcyclists asked Arain to stop, when he did not, the bandits opened fire on him. As a result of firing, he received bullet injuries. The attackers managed to flee.

The injured was first shifted to Civil Hospital Shikarpur and later referred to Pano Aqil Army Hospital. No FIR was registered till the filing of this report.