MIRPURKHAS, Nov 29: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Saturday rejected claims that Sindh faced threat of Talibanisation but added that even so the government was tightening security.

Talking to journalists on the sidelines of a wedding dinner of Syed Irfan Ali Shah, son of Sindh Agriculture Minister Syed Ali Nawaz Shah near Jhilori village, the chief minister said that land grabbers were occupying state land in the province particularly in Karachi and special measures had been taken to stop them.

He said that the land would be vacated after survey of all occupied land had been conducted. Special courts would be set up to try and award strict punishments to land grabbers, he said.

He said that the government had got 4,000 acres of forest land vacated. The government knew well that many people were unemployed and poor but it was not possible to give jobs to everyone, he said.

However, the Sindh government was imparting training to 50,000 youth under the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Programme within available resources and planned to give jobs to 50,000 jobless people.

He said that not only land but seed and fertilisers were also being given to peasant women so that they could cultivate their lands. Only 40,000 acres of government land was being given to poor women in Thatta, he said.