Journalist waylaid

Published December 29, 2008

MITHI, Dec 28: Three bandits robbed a journalist of Rs20,000 in Latifabad Hyderabad on Sunday.

Abdul Rehman Otho, a journalist from Diplo working as a reporter with a private TV channel told reporters here on Sunday that the bandits took him hostage at gunpoint in Latifabad Hyderabad and robbed him of Rs20,000 He was on his way to Thar from Karachi.

ELECTRIFICATION: Residents of Malahnore Veena village, taluka Mithi have urged the government to electrify their village and to sanction a link road.

Talking to Dawn, Councillor Genaram, Ashok Kumar, Isardas and other residents of the village complained that their village was the headquarters of union council Malahnore Veena, situated at a distance of seven kilometres from Mithi, at Mithi—Islamkot road.

They said there was a girls’ school, middle school and five boys’ primary schools and a basic health unit in the village.

They said that the village with a population of about 1,500 was located in zero kilometre range of grid station Mithi.

They said that the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company had provided power connection to a water supply tank near the village but despite several pleas, the company had not provided the facility of electricity to their village.

The villagers also urged the government to sanction a link road stretching two kilometres from Islamkot to their villages so that they could reach the town easily.

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