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HYDERABAD, Aug 7: A large number of activists of Pakistan People’s Party, Sindh People’s Youth and Sindh People’s Students Federation of Kotri, Jamshoro district, announced on Monday that they were joining the Pakistan Muslim League (Functional).
The activists, Mukhtiar Ali Korejo, Mohammad Amin Kolachi, Anwar Ali and Rustam Ali Abbasi, told a news conference at the press club that the party high command had ignored sincere workers over the years and favoured rich and wealthy activists.
They said that they had been associated with the party since 1988 and worked sincerely for the cause even when the party was out of power.
But their elected representatives never bothered to solve their problems and only used and exploited them for their own personal gains, they complained.
The party high command was patronising only the rich activists, they said adding that had recently met with the provincial president of PML-F, Syed Sadruddin Shah Rashidi in Karachi and expressed full confidence in his leadership.
To a question, they claimed that hundreds of people from their community had also left PPP and joined PML-F.
JUP: The Hyderabad chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) demanded that the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) withdraw the detection bills it had issued to a large number of poor consumers and take action against the black sheep within its ranks.
In a statement faxed to Dawn on Monday, JUP’s district president, Malik Mohammad Yasin Noorani, General Secretary Abdul Aziz Naghar and Dr Mohammad Younus Danish said that Hesco had issued detection bills to a large number of consumers in Gari Khata, Memon, Hirabad, Sarfaraz Colony, Liaquat Colony, Paretabad, Phulelli and Ilyasabad to benefit factory owners.
They alleged that the company officials were passing on the burden to the poor consumers who were already groaning under the increasingly unbearable weight of inflation to cover up their own corruption.
They demanded that the Hesco chief take action against the black sheep in the company instead of punishing the poor. The JUP leaders warned that if the company did not take back wrong detection bills, the party would be forced to take extreme steps.
SU: The vice-chancellor of the University of Sindh, Dr Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, on Monday urged the university lecturers to provide guidance and training to students.
