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SUKKUR, Dec 2: An All Parties Conference (APC) on Friday called upon the Sindh government to hold local bodies elections in 35 union councils of Ghotki in accordance with a verdict of the Sindh High Court. Hundreds of workers representing Awami Tehrik, Pakistan People’s Party, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Jamaat-i-Islami and Ghotki Action Committee attended the conference.
The APC expressed concern over speculation that the provincial government was trying to increase the number of union councils in the Ghotki district and warned the authorities against such a step. The conference asked the judiciary to take suo motu action against the provincial government.
HEALTH CARE: The Sindh government has been examining several proposals for setting up of an alternative cure system in the province.
Provincial Health Minister Shabbir Ahmed Qaimkhani stated this while addressing a symposium organized here on Friday by the Pakistan Association for Eastern Medicines.
Scores of hakeems, doctors and other experts from across the country attended the symposium.
The minister said that such dispensaries would be set up in the province where eastern medicines would be made available. He observed that treating patients with eastern drugs was an ancient way of cure. He welcomed the increasing collaboration between doctors and hakeems in research work.
He said that a five-year degree course in hikmat would be introduced in the universities of Sindh.
Earlier, Hamdard Foundation president Sadia Rashid spoke.
PROTEST: Hundreds of people took out a protest procession to condemn the killing of Shia leader Maulana Badruddin Mekho in Dera Murad Jamali on Friday morning.
The procession started from Old Sukkur and culminated at the press club.
Speaking on the occasion, Alam Shah Mosavi, Ali Bux Sajjadi and Hussain Naqvi criticized the Balochistan government for its failure in providing protection to Maulana Mekho.
The leaders threatened that a protest campaign would be launched if killers were not arrested within 24 hours.
Similar protests were also held in Shikarpur, Jacobabad, and other parts of the province where the youth burnt tyres and raised slogans against the government.
ACCIDENT VICTIM: A minor boy, who was injured in a road accident, succumbed to injuries in civil hospital here on Friday.
Abdul Majeed, a five-year-old resident of Qasim village, was crossing the road when a car hit him on Thursday. He was taken to civil hospital where he died on Friday.
Meanwhile, two women were injured when unidentified armed men from the Chachar tribe allegedly opened fire in Ghotki.
The victims were identified as Mai Nazaan and Samani, wife of Arif Chachar.
