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HYDERABAD, Dec 4: The Khebrani Forest Protection Committee of Indus Development Organisation on Thursday held a demonstration outside the press club against land-grabbers who cut down trees in the forest to occupy state land.
The committee’s president Basheer Ahmed Khebar and others said that the organisation was busy planting trees in Khebrani and Rais Mureed forests in Matiari district to rehabilitate the forests but some influential people of the area were neutralising their efforts by cutting down trees to grab forest land.
They said that they had filed written complaints with the Khebrani police in cooperation with the forest department but so far police had not taken action against the land-grabbers.
They demanded that the lease policy, which was enemy of forests, should be revoked and the forests should be handed over to local people.
HUNGER STRIKE: About half a dozen workers of Hyderabad Development Authority’s Mehran Workers Union staged hunger strike unto death outside the press club on Thursday in protest against non-payment of salaries for two months.
The union leaders said that due to wrong policies of HDA administration, the organisation was getting destroyed and the families of employees were starving.
They appealed to the government and local bodies minister to release salaries and warned that if they did not receive salaries immediately they would be forced to go on strike and the authorities would be responsible for the consequences.
PDF: The Sindh chapter of the People’s Doctors Forum on Thursday lashed out at the officers, who were trying to create hurdles to the implementation of the Sindh chief minister’s four-tier promotion programme for doctors.
The forum’s president, Dr Karim Khowaja, Dr Nisar Memon and Dr Mumtaz Dayo said in a joint statement that under the programme, thousands of doctors who had been waiting for promotions for the last 15 years would be promoted to the next grade.
They said that some officials were trying to create hurdles to the programme and appealed to the president and prime minister to take action against the officials and implement the programme immediately.
