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THATTA, Feb 10: A contractor and his son from Karachi drowned as the boat they were boarding overturned in Keenjhar Lake on Sunday.
Eyewitnesses said that a picnic party comprising about half a dozen persons on a boat headed for Noori-Jam Tamachi’s graves located on a small island at the middle of the lake.
The boat succumbing to violent current of Keenjhar due to speedy winds overturned resulting in the drowning of Abdul Shakoor Rajput, government contractor and resident of Shah Faisal Colony, Karachi, and his son Asghar.
The other co-occupants of the boat were however rescued by the sailors of other passing by boats.
Till the filing of this report the divers have yet not been succeeded in fishing out the bodies.
PEASANTS: Thirty members of a Kolhi family, got released from the clutches of a zamindar two weeks ago, have still not succeeded in getting an FIR registered.
Dhanoo son of Maooji Kolhi, the head of the family sitting in open yard of the Jhoke Sharif police station alongwith few women, infant and bare footed children told newsmen that the family had been working on the fields of a landlord, Mehdi Hassan Chandio, in Sakrand, district Nawabshah, who became their defaulter of Rs9,000 following the winding up of cotton picking season.
On insisting for payment, he asked them to go with him at his Jhok Sharif land as harvesting labour at his sugarcane fields there.
After a few days of their reaching, he kept the family in confinement and claimed that it took Rs33,000 from him.
On demanding accounts, Dhanoo alleged, the landlord asked them to send young women of the family to his Otaq at odd hours for settlement of accounts, where they and their children were maltreated.
He showed a recommendation letter of the HRCP taskforce, Hyderabad, federal secretary for ministry of human rights Islamabad, DCO and DPO Thatta who referred the family to Jhoke police station.
Meanwhile, the district coordinator, HRCP, Sikandar Lal, has appealed to the district administration to help the family.
