JACOBABAD, July 24: A large number of teachers hold a procession followed by a token hunger strike in Thull on Monday to protest against Sindh government’s ban on associations.

The procession started from Thull taluka office and reached the local press club after marching on main roads of the town.

The protesters led by Huzoor Bux, Manzoor Ahmed, Ghulam Hussain and Ali Hassan called the ban on teachers’ associations a stark violation of fundamental human rights.

CANAL BREACHED: About a 100 houses were inundated and five others were collapsed from the flood caused by a 10 foot breach in the Rindh Wahi canal near the Jan Mohammad Talani village on Monday.

The villagers who after hours of frenetic efforts succeeded in plugging the breach, told reporters that they had complained to irrigation officials time and again that the canal’s embankments had grown weak over time and they were in bad need of repairs.

But they always replied that Rindh Wahi was a private canal so they could not carry out its repairs, they said.

The houses which collapsed due to the flood were owned by Ghous Bux, Shaman Magsi, Ghulam Sarwar, Allah Bux and Wali Mohammad.

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