HYDERABAD, Oct 6: The Sindh cane commissioner has issued a final notice to sugar mill owners asking them to start crushing season by Oct 15.
The cane commissioner, Nazar Mohammad Baloch, warned that cases under the Sugarcane Factories Control Act, 1950, would be registered against millers who did not comply with the notice.
A meeting held in Karachi on Sept 28 under the chairmanship of the Sindh chief minister and attended by sugar mill owners, representatives of farmers and office-bearers of the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association had decided the date to start the sugarcane crushing season.
ARREST CONDEMNED: The Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz has condemned the arrest of party leader Fayaz Janwari and warned that the JSMM will launch a protest campaign from Oct 8 if excesses against the party are not stopped.
Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Wednesday, JSMM senior vice-chairman Samiullah Kalhoro, joint secretary Sikandar Ali Soomro and Muzaffar Bhutto said Mr Janwari was arrested by agencies and the Khairpur Nathan Shah police on Saturday in Sita, Dadu district.
They claimed that no case had been registered against the party leader at any police station. They said Mr Janwari was being held in wrongful confinement and his whereabouts were not known. They alleged that the government had launched an operation against the JSMM.
ARREST DEMANDED: A resident of the Berani town, Sanghar, has threatened to commit self-immolation outside the Chief Minister's House if killers of his son are not arrested.
Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Wednesday, Ali Sher Khaskheli alleged that his son, Waheed Ali, had been killed on Sept 11 on a decision of a jirga attended by Ali Nawaz, Yaroo, Waloo, Haji Soomar and Morio.
He further alleged that Hakim and Gulsher were involved in the murder but they were not being arrested by police. Answering a question about the motive behind the murder, Mr Khaskheli said his son had exchanged hot words with Gulsher.
