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HYDERABAD, March 5: The uncle of Ms Rashida Umrani, who claimed a couple of days ago her father had sold her for Rs10,000 after losing a gamble, denied on Sunday allegations levelled against many persons by Rashida’s mother.
Dalli Jan Umrani and his wife Hidayat Khatoon said while speaking at a news conference at the press club that the FIR registered against 10 people on charges of issuing threats to Rashida and her mother Nooran Begum was false.
Acting president of Jeay Sindh National Party Dr Amarshi Thakur who accompanied the couple, read the written statement at the press conference in which Mr Dalli Jan said that in reality Rashida was engaged to her cousin Abdul Ghani and his elder sister Zulekhan was married to his son Sain Bux. His brother Rahib was not a gambler but a practicing Muslim, he said.
He said that he himself sent his sons Wahid Bux and Sain Bux who had been nominated in the FIR to police and stressed that the case was false and appealed for justice.
PIPF: The Hyderabad chapter of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy said on Monday that a conspiracy was afoot to discourage people from taking the Khokhropar-Munabao railway route to India.
In a joint statement Syed Abbas Ali Jafri Advocate, Jalal Ahmed Khan Leghari and Mohammad Kafeel said that the customs and immigration staff at Wagah took only two hours to clear while in contrast they took many hours at Khokhropar zero point. On the contrary it took only two hours at Munabao to get custom clearance.
They said that the stark difference in time the authorities took showed that people were being discouraged to take this route for their journey to India and appealed to the government to take notice of what they called a ‘conspiracy’.
