HYDERABAD, Oct 21: Jamshoro DCO Qabool Ahmed Shaikh has said that the shrine of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar is being renovated on modern lines to provide maximum amenties to devotees.

Mr Shaikh who inspected the ongoing development works at the shrine directed the manager of the National Construction Company to install a big water tank for storing drinking water and also to enlarge the place for ablution.

He said that the pace of development and renovation work should be accelerated and the project must be completed by December this year.

FLYOVER SURVEY: Design consultants of the Hyderabad District Action Plan under the president’s Hyderabad Development Package, M/S Usmani and Company (Pvt) Limited, on Thursday conducted a traffic count survey for proposed flyover at Latifabad-7 level crossing.

The survey will continue for another 48 hours.

The design engineer of the company, Mr Meehon Khan, in a statement said that traffic count study was one of the main phases of feasibility analysis to overcome the traffic congestion at the level crossing.

The company established seven counting stations to cover all the traffic junctions.

DEMO: Activists of the Sindh National Party staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Friday. They were led by Ashraf Noonari, Shad Khoso and Ashraf Channa.

They were protesting against abolition of Salees Sindhi subject teaching to students of class-XI and proposed amendments in the Sindhi language bill 1972.

The SNP leaders said that Sindhi was an ancient language and no conspiracy against it would be tolerated.

They said that a small number of people among an ethnic group were trying to create hatred between the Sindhis and Urdu-speaking people.

They called upon the Urdu-speaking writers and intellectuals to take notice of conspiracies against the unity of the Sindhis and Urdu-speaking people.

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