HYDERABAD, July 26: City taluka municipal officer and taluka caretaker Asadullah Khan Rajput has assured the people that encroachments in the area will soon be removed.

He was talking to a delegation of people of Faqir Ka Pir at his office here on Tuesday. The taluka officer (regulation), Shahid Ali Khan, in-charge, anti-encroachment cell, Syed Asif Abbas Jafri, and other taluka officers were also present.

The delegation complained to the TMO that encroachments and pushcarts in the area had become a nuisance for people.

It maintained that in case of any accident or fire incident, ambulance and fire fighters could not enter the area due to encroachments.

HUNGER STRIKE: On the call of a dissident group of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association, SPLA members continued their hunger strike outside the press club for the ninth day here on Tuesday for acceptance of their demands.

SPLA’s demands include restoration of the old procedure for assessment of Urdu Salees answer books, teaching of Salees Sindhi to non-Sindhi students of class-XI, handing over of educational boards to the education department and removal of retired officers from the boards.

The action committee in a press release said the Sindh governor in a communication addressed to the secretary for education had directed him to ensure that non-Sindhi students of class-XI were taught Salees Sindhi from the new academic year. It praised the decision of the governor.

The committee appealed to the Sindh education minister and the education secretary to direct the chairman of the Sindh Textbook Board to ensure printing of the class-XI Salees Sindhi book before August to implement the governor’s decision.

BAN: DCO Mohammad Hussain Syed here on Tuesday banned the use, sale, purchase of crackers and other explosive material for seven days under section 144, Cr.PC.

UNIVERSITY: Sindh University Vice-Chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui presided over a meeting of faculty members of the political science department on Tuesday.

RESULT: The Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences on Tuesday announced the results of first professional MBBS (part-II) bi-annual examinations of the LUMHS, Chandka Medical College, Larkana, and the People’s Medical College for Girls, Nawabshah.

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