HYDERABAD, Oct 6: People’s Party Parliamentarian chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim has demanded that the unemployed engineers of Sindh should be provided jobs and sanctioned soft loans for self-employment.

He also demanded that the local people should be recruited in oil and gas companies working in Sindh and the army officials should be removed from civil organizations and replaced by civilians.

The PPP and Alliance for Restoration of Democracy leader was speaking at a seminar on “Future of Engineers” organized by Hyderabad People’s Engineering Forum at a local hotel on Sunday.

He held out an assurance that if the PPP came into power, not a single engineer or doctor would remain unemployed in the country.

On a political note, Mr Fahim said that the opposition had rejected the Legal Framework Order and argued that the resolution of the peoples’ problems depended on the restoration of the constitution.

Paying a tribute to the late Nawabzada Nasrullah, the PPP leader said that he had united different political parties and added that the ARD would not leave its founder’s agenda incomplete.

Speaking on the occasion, the leader of opposition in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, said that thousands of educated people in Sindh were running from pillar to post for jobs and even committing suicides but the government was least concerned about their plight.

Others who spoke at the seminar included PPP MNA Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, Professor Mushtaq Meerani, Sikandar Brohi, Nouman Ahmed Junejo, Anwar Solangi, Aijaz Dhamrah and Dr Karim Khwaja.

Ophthalmic moot: The vice chancellor of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Prof Jan Mohammad Memon, here on Sunday inaugurated the 11th International Annual Ophthalmic Conference organized by the local chapter of the Ophthalmological Society of Pakistan.

Speaking on the occasion, he said the process of postgraduate studies should not be delayed due to non-payment of stipend to postgraduate candidates.

Prof Memon said it was not fair to punish postgraduate students because it was taking too long to decide the matter of payment of stipend by the government.

Prof Nazir Ashraf Laghari spoke at length about the absence of facilities at the Hyderabad Eye Hospital, which caters to the needs of patients from whole of Sindh except Karachi.

He said important equipments such as one fully loaded P-IV computer system, books which would cost Rs500,000 and other necessary eye equipment which would cost Rs200,000 were urgently needed to manage huge work load.

Those who read papers on various eye diseases included Prof Hamid Mehmood from Lahore, Dr Ali Raza from Rawalpindi, Dr Samina Jehangir from Karachi and Prof Imtiaz Shah from Islamabad.

The general secretary of the association Hyderabad chapter, Prof Shafi Mohammad Jatoi read out the annual report of the society and also offered vote of thanks.