President asked to leave army post

Published September 22, 2004

THATTA, Sept 21: Activists of the People's Party Parliamentarians observed a hunger strike outside the press club here on Tuesday, demanding that the president should leave the post of the Chief of the Army Staff.

Speaking on the occasion, Thatta PPP president Syed Masood Mustafa Shah, former MNA Babu Ghulam Hussain, former MPA Dr Wahid Soomro and other party leaders threatened to widen the scope of their protest if the president did not shed his uniform. The protesters also criticized shortage of potable water, insanitary conditions and unscheduled load-shedding in the town.

INQUIRY: An inquiry committee here on Tuesday finalized its report about the theft of 400 tins of edible oil from a room of a girls' primary school. The assistant district officer, elementary education (girls), Raheel Seema Khokhar, had reported to the Mirpur Sakro police one week back that about 400 tins of edible oil, provided by the WHO for distribution among students, had been stolen from the school.

Police, after registering an FIR, had arrested husband of the headmistress of the school, Fareh Deeba. District Nazim Syed Shafqat Hussain Shah Shirazi had suspended Ms Khokhar and Ms Deeba and constituted a committee, comprising Mirpur Sakro Taluka Nazim Abdul Ghani Baghiar as its head and Taluka Naib Nazim Hassan Ali Memon, Sukhpoor Union Council Naib Nazim Qadir Lashari, Gharo Union Council Naib Nazim Qamaruddin as members, to inquire into the matter.

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