HYDERABAD, June 22: Residents of Tando Mohammad Khan, Talpur Textile Mills, labour colony, and PPP activists staged a protest sit-in on Phulelli road on Wednesday against the threat of workers’ ejection from the residential colony.
They also staged a demonstration outside the Tando Mohammad Khan Press Club.
Speaking on the occasion, former provincial minister and president of the People’s Party Parliamentarian, PPP, Hyderabad district, Syed Mohsin Shah Bukhari said that late Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had established the first-ever textile mill in Tando Mohammad Khan, which was closed during Gen Zia’s regime.
He said the former employees of the mill have been living in the residential colony for the last 35 years. He said the company, which has recently purchased the mill, has no right to eject the former mill workers from their houses.
He claimed that the workers have the first right to purchase the houses. He warned that his party would not tolerate injustices with the residents of the colony.
INDIAN WRITERS: A three-member delegation of the Sindhi Indian writers comprising Hari Motwani, Hero Thakar and Nand Chaghani here on Tuesday laid a floral wreath at the Bulri Shah Karim shrine.
They were given a rousing reception by the people of the area. They also visited the residence of Syed Aijaz Shah, the Gaddi Nasheen of the shrine and offered condolences on the sad demise of his brother, Syed Munir Hussain Shah.
Talking to newsmen, Motwani said that since time immemorial, Sindh has remained the citadel of peace and it enjoyed a historic place in the world. He said that Sindhi language had developed faster in India than in Sindh. He claimed that Indian government believed in secularism and added that there was no religious discrimination in India.
MUET: The controller of examinations of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences has announced that practical/viva- voce examinations of DMRD part-II will be held on July 2 at the department of radiology, Hyderabad campus.
