HYDERABAD, July 11: The steering committee of the Anti-Greater Thal Canal Action Committee has resolved to take out a rally from Hyderabad on July 19 and address public meetings at Matli, Tando Ghulam Ali, Digri, Tando Jan Mohammad, Jhuddo, Naukot, and Mithi.

It resolved this in a meeting at the residence of Syed Ali Nawaz Shah, MPA, at Gulshan-e-Sajjad on Thursday night.

The meeting, which was presided over by the convener of the action committee and provincial president, PPP, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, reviewed in detail the response received by the committee during its mass contact programme and expressed satisfaction that the people were ready for sacrifices.

It decided to meet the editors of Sindhi language newspapers on July 14 at a luncheon and to brief them about the stand of the action committee against the greater Thal canal.

It also decided to repeat the same exercise on July 16 and invite the editors of English and Urdu newspapers of Karachi at a luncheon meeting to put forward the case of the committee and Sindh before them.

On July 20, the leaders of the committee will address public meetings at Islamkot, Nagarparkar and Chhachhro.

The committee leaders will also address public meetings in Thatta district on July 28 and 29.

Those who attended the meeting included Maula Bux Chandio (PPP), Rasool Bux Palejo and Abrar Qazi (Awami Tehrik), Dr Qadir Magsi and Haider Shahani (STPP), Maulana Taj Mohammad Nahyoon (JUI-F), Abdul Waheed Qureshi (JI), Gul Mohammad Jakhrani and Wali Mohammad Jamari (SNF), Mohammad Afzal Gujjar (PML-N), and Jami Chandio and Dr Nazeer Shaikh (SWC).

SPSC: The controller of examinations, Sindh Public Service Commission, Hyderabad, on Wednesday announced the results of the pre-interview written test for recruitment to the post of assistant director/deputy district population officer in the Population and Welfare Department, Government of Sindh.