LARKANA, June 12: Rejecting the federal budget for 2007-08, the Larkana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) termed it pro-rich and sought further enhancement in salaries and pensions of the working class.

At a meeting held here on Tuesday and presided over by it’s president, Mohammed

Ali Shaikh, the LCCI members severely criticised the budget.

They said that leaving the people at the mercy of utility stores would not work as these stores always lacked commodities for common men’s consumption.

The meeting said that an increase of 15 per cent in salaries and pension of the government employees was insufficient, as prices of rice, flour, ghee and other items of common use have registered an unprecedented increase.

The subsidy on fertiliser had proved impracticable for the dealers and stockists were reluctant to transfer the benefit that government wanted to trickle down to growers.

UTP DIES: An under trial prison (UTP) Zawar Iqbal Bhutto died in the jail ward of Chandka Medical College Hospital on Monday.