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SUKKUR, June 15: The Asian Development Bank has offered $500 million aid for the development of rural areas of Sindh, particularly for providing loans to peasants.
This was said by the member of the Board of Revenue, Sindh, Qasim Lashari, at a meeting with the executive district officers and district officers of his department at the DCO office here on Tuesday.
Mr Lashari briefed the officers about the amendments made in the Tenancy Act and sought their suggestions for providing relief to farmers. He directed the revenue officers to go through the contents of the Land Revenue Act 1967 and the Sindh Land Revenue Rules 1968 and seek knowledge about powers entrusted to them under the laws.
He directed them to circulate the law books among their subordinate staff for implementing the laws in letter and spirit. The meeting was attended by the revenue EDOs and DDOs of Sukkur, Ghotki, Khairpur, Naushahro Feroze, Nawabshah, Larkana, Shikarpur and Jacobabad districts. Sindh Cane Commissioner Nazar Mohammad Baloch also attended the meeting.
LANDMINE: Two persons were injured when a truck of Bhambhor Rifles ran over a landmine in Lanjoo Safari area, along the Sindh-Balochistan border, near Kashmore on Monday night.
A truck carrying 80 Bhambhor Rifles men was returning to the base camp when it hit the landmine causing an explosion. The truck was damaged and two labourers Safeer Ahmed and Abdul Rehman were injured. They were taken to Sui the hospital.
ATTACK: Five men of the Indhar community, including three sons of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam leader Maulana Mohammad Murad Halejvi, were injured when unknown people attacked them, while they were working on a farm near Haleji Sharif, Pano Akil, on Monday night.
The assailants attacked the people working on the farm with hatchets and sticks, injuring the five people, and fled. Rashid, Arshad and Ameer Faisal, sons of Moulana Halejvi, Maulvi Abdullah and Mohammad Yousuf Indhar were injured. They were brought to the Sukkur civil hospital.
The reason for the attack was said to be a land dispute. An FIR against eight people, including Shahoo, Rab Rakio Indhar, Ghulam Ali, Rab Nawaz and Abbas was registered at the Sultanpur police station.
SUSPENDED: Police authorities have suspended ASI Mehboob Shamail, the official in-charge of the West police outpost at the Sukkur Barrage, Head Constable Rasheed and five other policemen and appointed City ASP Saqib Sultan to conduct an inquiry against them for robbing Rs250,000 from a man and torturing him.
A manager of the insurance company Eastern Federal Union,Siri Chand, was allegedly robbed of Rs250,000, chained and tortured by the policemen when he was returning from Khairpur in his car on Saturday.
The team at the outpost after stopping his car for search snatched the cash, beat him and then took him to the house of a police official and chained him there. He was released the following morning and warned not to report the incident.
A friend of the victim informed Sukkur Range DIG Ramzan Channa and Sukkur DPO Ghulam Shabbir Sheikh about the incident, who took action against the officials involved. However, no case has been registered against them.
