KARACHI, Oct 10: The leader of opposition in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Khuhro, on Monday submitted three adjournment motions to discuss matters in the next assembly session regarding ‘rigging’ in local body polls, price hike and deteriorating law and order situation in Sindh.

Nisar Khuhro submitted an adjournment motion aimed at discussing ‘massive rigging carried out by rulers during the recently held local body elections in the province and the involvement of various functionaries of the Sindh government in them’.

He said that according to press reports the rigging was carried out in all the cities of the province, particularly Karachi, where two presiding officers had been arrested on the charge of rigging and four ballot boxes and 500 bogus votes were recovered from their custody.

The other adjournment motion was about alarming rise in suicides committed by the poor people due to the price hike, which had hardly hit the already crippled poor people.

Third adjournment motion was about deteriorating law and order situation in the province. He said some prisoners along with the Sukkur jail police party escorting them were kidnapped by a few armed men in Khairpur last month. “Such state of affairs exposes the law and order situation,” he added. —PPI