HYDERABAD, Dec 30: Zakat has not been distributed among more than 50,000 deserving people as political wrangling has delayed the formation of Zakat committees in some areas of Sindh.
This was said by the leaders of the Sindh chapter of Pasban at a press conference here on Saturday.
Sindh Pasban organiser Mohammad Hussain Khan, deputy organiser Nawab Ahmed Chang and other leaders said that in other areas, Zakat was being disbursed in fake names and the poor and destitute were making repeated requests for zakat but in vain.
The Pasban leaders said that the organization would distribute 1,000 blankets among the rain-affected people of Abdullah Shah union council, Kadhan and Badin city and sacrificial meat among the poor people of Hyderabad and Kotri on the occasion of Eidul Azha.
They appealed to philanthropists to give sacrificial animals’ meat and hides to Pasban for distribution among deserving people.
They said that Pasban was striving for the establishment of a justice-based system in the country but also providing succour to the poor and destitute.
LINKAGE PROGRAMME: A spokesman for the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology has said that a linkage proposal for collaboration between the MUET and the University of Nottingham, UK, in the field of rock mechanics has been recently approved under the Higher Education Commission-British Council Joint Higher Education Links Programme.
In a statement issued here on Saturday, the spokesman said that the main purpose of the programme was to strengthen the capacity of the MUET department of mining engineering for development of research skills in mine modelling and design and to train the faculty and field mining engineers.
He said it was a three-year programme which would cost Rs3.5 million. He said the programme was part of their strategy to raise the standard of teaching and research at the MUET to the level of developed countries and cater to the manpower needs of mega coal mining projects at Thar and other places in the country.
Under the programme, he said, three faculty members from the University of Nottingham, including renowned professor R. N. Singh, would visit the Mehran university in February 2007 to supervise a postgraduate course on rock mechanics design in mining and civil construction. He said mining graduates and field mining engineers would attend the course.
Professor Dr Abdul Ghani Pathan would be the coordinator of the linkage programme, he said.
