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HYDERABAD, Jan 18: Activists of the Pakistan People’s Party (SB) and its students and youth wings observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Wednesday against non-payment of compensation to people affected by the Lyari Expressway project and the alleged demolition of old settlements in Karachi.
Speaking on the occasion, party leaders Zulfiqar Jamali, Dr Lakhmir Palari, Syed Imran Shah and others alleged that the City District Government of Karachi in connivance with builders’ mafia had bulldozed old villages in the city without paying compensation to people.
They warned that if displaced families were not paid compensation and provided with alternative accommodation, the party activists would stage a series of protest demonstrations throughout the province and also stage a sit-in outside the office of the Karachi city nazim.
HESCO: Hesco chief executive Maqbool Ahmad Khwaja has said continuous training is an essential part of service because without proper training, no success can be achieved in any enterprise.
He was speaking at a ceremony to distribute certificates among trainees at the regional training centre in Jamshoro on Wednesday.
He asked employees to take precautionary measures while working on power lines.
NEW COMMANDANT: The vice chief of the army staff, General Ahsan Saleem Hayat, promoted corps commander Lieutenant General Imtiaz Hussain as a new commandant colonel of the Sindh Regiment.
According to a press release by the press information department, General Hayat pinned badges of ranks on the shoulders of Lieutenant General Hussain and presented him with a regimental cap at the Sindh Regimental Centre in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
He congratulated the newly promoted general and expressed hope that the Sindh Regiment would benefit from his experience.
Addressing on the occasion, General Hayat lauded performance of the Sindh Regiment and said the regiment set high standards of professional excellence within a short span of time.
He appreciated services of Colonel Sher Khan (Nishan-i-Haider), who sacrificed his life in defence of the country, of the Sindh Regiment.
He also praised contribution of the outgoing Commandant Colonel Major General Fahim Akhtar. The ceremony was attended by a large number of serving and retired officers and junior commissioned officers.
Earlier, the vice chief of the army staff visited the Yadgar-i-Shuheda and laid a floral wreath and offered Fateha.
On arrival at Hyderabad, the vice chief of army staff accompanied by Corps Commander Lieutenant General Syed Athar Ali, was received by Lieutenant General Imtiaz Hussain, Major General Fahim Akhtar and Major General Mohammad Mustafa Khan.
