SUKKUR, June 17: The convener of the Sukkur district council requested the Election Commission of Pakistan to announce date for voting on no-confidence motion against the district nazim after majority of members passed the motion on Tuesday.

Convener Abdullah Ghumro asked members to show their support for the no-confidence resolution tabled earlier by raising hands and all the 44 members out of 65 present in the session supported it.

The convener then wrote a letter to the Election Commission, requesting it to announce date for voting on the motion, and adjourned the session for an indefinite period.

Earlier this year, the Sukkur bench of the Sindh High Court had ordered the convener to summon the meeting of the council after two women members filed a petition, stating that they wanted to move a no-confidence motion against the nazim, but the convener was not summoning the meeting.

The convener had summoned the meeting after court orders but he had to adjourn it due to lack of quorum.

Later, District Nazim Syed Nasir Hussain Shah filed a petition in the Sukkur bench of Sindh High Court, requesting the court that the second motion could not be presented in the council before a lapse of one year after the failure of first no-confidence motion against him, but the court dismissed his petition.

The district nazim then filed a review petition in the Supreme Court, which has been declared maintainable, but the court has so far not heard it on a regular basis.

boys hurt in raid: Two minor boys were injured in a stampede caused by police attempt to arrest villagers and heavy aerial firing in Kouro Leghari village in the limits of Daharki police station early on Tuesday morning.

Sources in the village said that a contingent of police led by the SPO of Mirpur Mathelo, Mohsin Raza, cordoned off the village and resorted to heavy firing in the air before ransacking some houses and arresting Habib Leghari, Master Saleh Mohammad and Abdul Razzaq Leghari.

The villagers, too, started firing in the air in response to police firing and arrests forcing police to leave the village, they said.

The SPO later told journalists that the raid had been conducted to arrest a criminal, Amjad Leghari, but police had to leave left after his father showed bail before arrest orders issued by the Sindh High Court. Police also released the three suspects, he said.

The villagers claimed that women folk and children were greatly harassed by police firing, which caused stampede, injuring Hakim, 10, and Khalil, 9, who were moved to a local hospital.