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KHAIRPUR, Sept 24: An ADP candidate for Kotdiji taluka nazim, Munawar Hussain Wassan, was booked on late Friday evening for kidnapping a councillor.
According to reports, Imtiaz Hussain Chakrani, a resident of Saheb Khan Chakrani village, had registered an FIR against Munawar Wassan and two other persons for kidnapping his brother Ali Gauhar Chakrani, a councillor from the union council of Faqirabad.
Imtiaz Hussain said that the kidnappers wanted his brother to vote for Munawar Wassan in the local body elections.
UNOPPOSED ELECTION: According to the Khairpur assistant election commissioner, 14 seats were declared unopposed out of 26.
These seats include four seats of peasants, and four seats of minority from different talukas.
Besides, four seats for women, one seat for peasant and one minority seat were also declared unopposed from Nara taluka.
Eight polling stations with 24 polling booths had been set up in Khairpur for the third and final phase of the local body polls.
All polling stations were set up in the high schools of respective talukas.
CONSTABLE: A head constable, Ali Hassan Jiskani, was injured with a loaded rifle here on Saturday. He was rushed to the civil hospital, where his condition was stated to be critical.
SACKING: Qaim Ali Shah, the president of the Sindh PPP, has removed MPA Dr Mehreen Bhutto from the post of PPP women wing president and appointed Ms Ghazala in her place.
He also nominated Ms Bachal Kubar as the new district general secretary of the PPP.
FORMER NAZIM: The former district nazim of Khairpur, Nafisa Shah, has said that the councillors were supporting her even though the government were harassing them.
She was speaking at the gathering of councillors in Thari Mirwah and Kotdiji talukas.
Ms Shah, who is contesting for the second term, said that police and revenue officers were interfering in the polling process.
She said that she carried out record number of development works in the district during her four year tenure despite opposition by the Sindh government.
She said that the councillors had been kidnapped and made hostages for backing her. The previous day they had been called at the DCO house where they were threatened to vote for the government-backed candidates, she alleged.
