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HYDERABAD, Feb 7: The Institute of Sindh Affairs has expressed concern over the ongoing military operation in Balochistan, rampant unemployment and inflation.
It decided to publish pamphlets to create awareness among the people of Sindh about effects of dams and resource distribution among the provinces.
The governing body of the institute at a meeting held here on Tuesday demanded that thousands of posts lying vacant in different departments should be filled without delay through the Sindh Public Service Commission.
Prof Liaquat Aziz presided over the meeting.
It demanded that the operations in Balochistan and Wana should be stopped forthwith, provincial autonomy and democracy should be restored and an autonomous National Finance Commission should be appointed.
It called for announcing the NFC award on the basis of revenue generation, poverty and backwardness of the provinces and giving the right to the provinces to collect sales tax. It demanded an increase in the education and health budget.
The meeting also opposed construction of dams on the River Indus.
DOCTORS: The action committee of doctors who according to the Sindh Public Service Commission had failed a test conducted by the commission held a meeting at the Liaquat University Hospital on Tuesday. The committee rejected the results of the test for selection of doctors and accused the SPSC of nepotism.
The meeting warned that if the examination was not re-held, the action committee would approach the Sindh High Court and besiege the office of the chairman of the SPSC.
It demanded removal of the SPSC chairman.
CONFERENCE: The chairman of the Pakistan Orthopaedic Association, Hyderabad chapter, Prof Khaliq Ahmad Siddiqui, on Tuesday said an international orthopaedic conference would be held at the Liaquat Medical University from Feb 23 to 26.
He said the conference, organized every year since 1998, was being held for the first time in Hyderabad.
Prof Siddiqui said that a large number of orthopaedic specialists, research scholars and teachers from Pakistan and abroad, including the US, UK, India, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka, would read research papers at the conference on “Ethics and orthopaedic practices.”
He said that on the opening day of the conference, two workshops, one sponsored by an international company of the US and Germany, Medtronics, and the other by “Pitaka Ortho tools” of India, would be held.
