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HYDERABAD, Dec 19: The Jamaat-i-Islami held a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Sunday against the increase in prices of petrol, diesel and kerosene oil, inflation, exclusion of the religion column from the new passport and the president's uniform.
Speaking on the occasion, Hyderabad JI Amir Maulana Abdul Waheed Qureshi criticized the government for increasing the prices of petrol and added that this would also cause increase in prices of essential consumer goods like flour and edible oil.
He said the 13 billion dollars foreign exchange reserves were of no use when poor people were unable to make both ends meet and they were deprived of educational and health facilities. He said the national wealth was being squandered on luxuries and foreign tours and people were facing hunger.
He held the rulers responsible for the murder of 8,000 Muslims in Afghanistan. Mr Qureshi said these were the reasons that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal had launched a countrywide movement against the rulers.
Shaikh Shaukat Ali said instead of strengthening personal rule, institutions should be strengthened for political and economic stability of the country. He said frequent increases in prices of essential items had made lives of people miserable. Rao Masood Ali Khan, Maulana Ghulam Mohammad Mirbahar, Abdul Qayoom Haider, Abdul Hameed Qureshi and others also spoke on the occasion.
SALARIES DEMANDED: The Sindh Para-Veterinary Staff Association held a demonstration outside the press club here on Sunday for acceptance of demands of employees.
Speaking on the occasion, association president Abdul Ghaffar Soomro, Wazir Ali, Mir Niaz Hussain Talpur and others demanded that promotions should be granted to employees, 16 months salary to employees of the sector development project be released and their fixed TA of Rs70 per month be raised to Rs1,000 per month.
They said families of sector development project employees were starving as they had not been paid their salaries for 16 months. They complained that the seniority list of poultry directorate employees had not been issued for 20 years.
They criticized a proposal to wind up veterinary hospitals in Hirabad, Hyderabad, Shahdadkot and Tando Mohammad Khan. They said they would continue their struggle till the acceptance of their demands.
NAZIM: Latifabad Taluka Nazim Abdul Jabbar Khan has handed over cheques of Rs500,000 to the HDA for building protective walls on drains and purchase of manhole covers.
In a statement issued here on Saturday, he said that many a people had died in open manholes of Hyderabad and it was the responsibility of the HDA to construct protective walls and cover manholes.
He called upon the Sindh government to devolve HDA and WASA at the taluka level as per the Sindh Local Government Ordinance to enable elected representatives to show better results.
