HYDERABAD, Oct 31: The present government is making all out efforts to eliminate unemployment from the country and in furtherance of this objective, unemployed youths are being appointed in various departments of Sindh on the basis of merit.

This was stated by the Sindh minister for inter-provincial coordination, Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman, who was distributing cheques among the heirs of a PPP worker who was killed on December 28 in Matiari district in the violence following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and five others who had received injuries in the Karsaz bomb blast and in the Matiari roits. The cheques were distributed at a function held at Saeedabad on Thursday evening.

Mr Jamiluzzaman said that that the blood of PPP activists had not gone in vain and democracy has been restored in the country.

Later, the minister gave a cheque of Rs300,000 to the heirs of deceased worker and Rs100,000 each to heirs of five injured.