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HYDERABAD, Dec 22: The People of Asia Association, local chapter, has appealed to the president and prime minister to announce a date for opening the Khokhrapar route to provide travel facilities to the people of two neighbouring countries.
In a statement issued here on Monday, the leaders of the association, Abbas Jafri, advocate, Abdul Malik and Rafique Jafri condemned the decision of the railway minister not to open the Khokhrapar-Monabao railway route.
They wondered why the railways had no time to repair a few kilometres of track to facilitate the people of Sindh.
ADVISER: Adviser to the Sindh chief minister on home affairs Aftab Ahmed Shaikh has said that the government was determined to set up a girls college on the Bakra Piri plot to provide educational facilities to girl students of the area.
He was presiding over a meeting at the Circuit House on Sunday which discussed ways and means to acquire the plot for the girls college on which a dispute was going-on for the last 30 years.
He said the forest department, which owned the plot, had fixed its price at Rs14 million which was too much.
Speaking on the occasion, Sindh minister for sports and youth affairs Naeem Ishtiaque said the government wanted to give girls college as a present to the people of this area.
DEMO: Contract employees of Telecom Foundation of PTCL, STR-I, here on Monday staged a protest demonstration outside the local press club against the non-implementation of the district government notification dated Jan 1 with regard to the fixation of their wages.
Leaders of the action committee said the PTCL director of labour and welfare had ordered the increase in wages of employees of STR-II, III, VI, overseas telecommunication region (OTR), Karachi, development south, Karachi, and the director of telegraph stores and workshop, Karachi, contract employees of STR-I Hyderabad and STR-V Sukkur had not been given any raise in their wages.
