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HYDERABAD, June 18: The Sindh government has released funds for uplift schemes of the district under the Annual Development Programme.
The protesting district council members, Nazims, Naib Nazims and councillors of union councils of Hyderabad were told this by Latifabad Taluka Nazim Abdul Jabbar Khan at the hunger strike camp here on Wednesday.
The taluka Nazim said work orders for development schemes had also been issued by the district officer, roads. He also showed photocopies of work orders.
The elected representatives, observing hunger strike for the last eight days, ended their protest after hearing the news.
Earlier, district council member and union council-4 Nazim Jeeando Soomro tried to set himself ablaze after sprinkling kerosene on his clothes outside the press club here but a journalist present there snatched the matchbox from other councillors who were giving it to the Nazim.
The Cantonment police have registered a case against the Nazim for trying to commit suicide.
MUTTAHIDA: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement will support the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz in its struggle against construction of the Thal canal and for rights of the province.
This assurance was given when a delegation of the Muttahida, comprising the adviser to the Sindh chief minister on home affairs, Aftab Ahmad Shaikh, Nasrin Jalil, Wasim Akhtar and MPA Arshad Shah, met JSQM chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi, senior vice-chairman Shafi Karnani, Mohammad Rahimoon and other leaders at the JSQM media centre in Qasimabad here on Tuesday night. The meeting lasted for three hours and discussed issues confronting Sindh.
According to insiders, the Muttahida leaders also delivered a massage of party chief Altaf Hussain offering support to the JSQM on the issue of the Thal canal and other problems of Sindh.
The MQM leaders said they would participate in a protest sit-in, to be staged under the aegis of the JSQM in Karachi on June 25. Both the parties agreed to hold another meeting in Karachi on June 20 to evolve future strategy.
