LARKANA, April 18: The Sindh National Front (SNF) Chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto said on Wednesday that he had no personal grudge against Ms Benazir Bhutto who he alleged had been besmirching him.

Talking to delegations who called on him in Mirpur Bhutto he said that she had been maligning him since 30 years and once she ordered irrigation water to his lands blocked.

He said that while in power she had through the then Larkana Commissioner Anwar Haidar cancelled the old record of land including that of her grandfather Nawab Nabi Bakhsh Bhutto, which was later restored by the Sindh High Court.

Recently her servants lodged a non-cognizance (NC) report against him and his son at Naudero police station, he said and added that still he bore no personal grudge against her.

He said that Ms Benazir Bhutto had put the reputation of PPP leaders at stake when she talked of ‘deal’ with Gen Musharraf. The leaders who had been talking about her return and no deal with Musharraf, stood exposed before people. They should now better resign, he advised.

PROTEST: Main bazaars of the town remained shut on Wednesday when people held demonstrations against the murder of a tailor master Muhammed Umar Narejo in Naudero late on Tuesday night.

Imtiaz Khuhro and Manzoor Mirani led the protests and called for the arrest of killers.

Meanwhile, the workers of Hesco protested against the kidnapping of Muhammed Punhal Mirani, a lineman from Naudero on late Tuesday night, and kept power supply off from 9 to 11 am.

They wore black armbands and called for early and safe recovery of lineman.

Nisar Shaikh, a leader of Wapda Hydroelectric union Larkana, gave 48 hour deadline to police to recover Mirani and said that they would suspend power supply to the entire district if police did not recover him.

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