LARKANA: Meeting denied

Published November 13, 2007

LARKANA, Nov 12: Officials of the central prison Larkana did not allow leader of Opposition in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, MPA Haji Munawar Ali Abbasi and other PPP leaders to meet President of PPP Larkana and District Bar Association, Ayaz Soomro and other lawyers on Monday.

Mr Khuhro went to the prison to meet the jailed lawyers and workers but the Deputy Superintendent of Jail, Sikandar Bakhrani, did not allow them to meet the lawyers. Without Sindh government’s permission “we can not allow you to meet them, as they are detained under MPO, said the jail official.

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