HYDERABAD: Armed bandits were repor­ted to have fired on Larkana-bound Moen­jodaro Express, eight buses, and a truck near Sehwan late last night [March 10] wounding 10 persons, five of them seriously. Strong detachments of the Frontier Constabulary and the Indus Rangers, accompanied by the Sind Police have been despatched to the troubled areas along the Kirthar mountainous range, bordering Baluchistan province.

They are reported to have laid … siege [to] over 200 armed bandits at a place called Saeh Shahnaing. The bandits are reportedly armed with modern weapons. Immediately after the firing incidents, the road and railway traffic between Dadu and Hyderabad was suspended for the night. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by our staff reporter from Karachi,] the Sind Provincial Government [has] banned publication of the daily newspaper “Jasarat”, Karachi, for a period of two months. The action has been taken under the provisions of … the West Pakistan Maintenance of Public Order, 1960, prohibiting the editing, printing, publishing and issuance of the newspaper. According to a Press Note … this step has been necessitated to prevent the paper from publishing items prejudicial to national safety.

Published in Dawn, March 12th, 2023