HYDERABAD, April 4: Jamshoro District Nazim Malik Asad Sikandar has urged Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Awais Ahmad Leghari to cancel tenders for the auction of machinery of the Kotri telegraph workshop and other accessories to prevent any breach of peace.

He was talking to officials of the PTCL at his secretariat on Saturday. The officials had called on him to seek his and other public representatives’ help in the matter.

Meanwhile, a group of people, including Khuda-Ki-Basti Union Council Nazim Khadim Hussain Jamali, held a protest demonstration outside the office of the district nazim against the proposed auction of the workshop machinery.

They claimed that the PTCL administration was trying to dispose of the machinery valued at tens of millions of rupees as scrap.

The district nazim told the protesters that he would ask the federal minister to appoint an inquiry committee.

MEETING: Sindh University Vice-Chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui has said that no other religion has emphasised the need for acquiring knowledge as Islam.

He was speaking at an interactive meeting on “Awareness of terrorism countered through tolerance and by avoiding extremism with particular reference to educational, cultural and religious institutions”.

The vice-chancellor said education was the greatest exponent of peace and was the enemy of violence. He said Sufis in different parts of the world, especially Sindh, had worked for the promotion of peace love and harmony.

The dean of the faculty of social sciences, Dr Rafia Shaikh said that tolerance was a great quality in a human being and it play a key role in development of the society.