LARKANA, Oct 5: The employees of the Larkana Municipal Corporation (LMC), including the sanitary staff, observed a strike on Friday in protest against the non-payment of two months’ salaries.
The clerical staff of the LMC observed a pen-down strike and staged a sit-in outside the office of the taluka nazim to press for their demands.
They threatened to go on an indefinite strike if their dues were not paid immediately.
RECOVERED: The Kambar police on Friday recovered Sikandar Kumbhar, an officer of Nadra, Khairpur office, from a mosque of the Dato Chandio village, where kidnappers left him chained.
He was kidnapped late Thursday night in the Vikya Sangi village.
Police sources said the kidnappers had escaped from the village with the pistol of the officer.
LOOTED: Robbers looted gold ornaments and cash from the house of Lal Chand in the Nasirabad town in the early hours of Friday.
Hari Ram, Chand’s relative, was wounded when put up resistance to the robbers.
He was admitted to the Chandka Medical College Hospital.
ARRESTED: The Dari police barged into the house of Shahnawaz Shaikh alias Vishal, an ailing Sindhi poet, in Allahabad late Thursday night and arrested his two brothers.
The police, who allegedly misbehaved with the inmates, confirmed that the poet’s brothers, identified as Shahban and Mohammad Murad, had been arrested, but declined to disclose why the arrests were made.
ELECTROCUTED: Mohammed Hussain Brohi, 20, was electrocuted and killed in the Rashid Wagan town on Friday while he rectifying a fault in his tape recorder.
