HYDERABAD, Jan 14: Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) President Syed Qamaruzzaman Shah on Sunday urged the government to penalise the World Bank consultants for faults in the design of Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD), which caused billions of rupees of losses to the province and rendered seven freshwater lakes brackish.

Mr. Shah while addressing a meeting of the chamber suggested that the LBOD effluent should be discharged directly into the sea at Puran Dhoro through Shakoor Dhandh to save the province from further losses. The cut made in the sea should be filled forthwith as it had wreaked havoc in the area, he added.

The meeting vowed that the sugarcane growers would recover at all costs quality premium from sugar mills under the Sugarcane Act. Sindh chief minister had also assured them that the premium would be recovered from the mill owners, the meeting said.

Akhund Ghulam Mohammad Siddiqui, Anwar Bachani, Mir Murad Ali Khan Talpur and Dr. Shahnawaz Shah attended the meeting.

JSNP: The Jeay Sindh National Party, a splinter group of SNP, on Sunday appealed to the Supreme Court and RPO of Hyderabad to order recovery of JSNP Chairman Agha Shamshad Mughal the party feared might have been picked up by some law enforcement agency late on Saturday night.

Otherwise the party would launch a protest movement across the province, warned the party’s senior vice-chairman Dr. Amrashi Thakur, office-bearers Nadeem Jan Rind, Dr. Anwar Hajano, Ismail Chhachhar and Dildar Mughal alleged that Agha Shamshad Mughal while addressing a news conference at the press club.

They said that Mughal disappeared on his way to Qasimabad from Tando Agha late on Saturday night and feared the personnel of some law enforcement agency might have picked him up. They laid the blame on an ethnic organisation for his disappearance and said that the arrest and disappearance of nationalist leaders had become almost a routine with many leaders of nationalist parties disappeared and held incommunicado for months.

They claimed that Mughal’s disappearance, which had been timed to coincide with the Martyrs’ Day the party was commemorating on January 14, might be an attempt to sabotage the day.