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SUKKUR, April 5: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal secretary-general Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro has accused the government of trying to convert the country into a secular state. Speaking at a gathering of alliance workers here on Tuesday, he said the MMA would continue opposing such moves. Dr Soomro alleged that the rulers were playing in the hands of anti-Islamic forces and were following their agenda. He claimed that the rulers wanted people to accept foreign ideologies but the masses by responding positively to the MMA?s strike call had given their decision against the government.
Expressing their resentment over a Punjab Assembly resolution regarding the Gujranwala incident, he said instead of supporting people, the assembly passed the resolution in favour of police who fired upon the people.
Dr Soomro alleged that the rulers were naming religious clerics and Mujahideen as terrorists and extremists to make their western friends happy.
LIFE TERM AWARDED: The Anti-Terrorism Court-I, Sukkur and Larkana bench, here on Tuesday sentenced three people to life imprisonment and ordered forfeiture of their property worth Rs50,000 each in a kidnapping for ransom case.
The convicts were identified as Niaz Hussain Mangi, Mohammad Mithal Junejo and Abdul Qadeer Shaikh.
They had kidnapped Mujeebur Rehman, 2, son of Ghulam Qadir Bhutto, in Larkana on May 12, 2004, and later contacted his parents for Rs1 million as ransom.
On a tip-off, police had arrested the accused and released the child.
30 INJURED: More than 30 people were injured when a passenger bus fell into a ditch after its tie-rod broke near Rohri on Tuesday.
Four critically injured people, Haji Malik, Mohammad Ramzan, Bhanul Khatoon and Ghulam Jaffer Katohar, were shifted to the Sukkur Civil Hospital and the others, including Din Mohammad, Ali Nawaz, Zameer Hussain, Abdul Ghaffar, Baggan Shah, Abdul Rehman and Abdul Karim, were taken to the Rohri Taluka Hospital.
The driver escaped.
ACID INJURIES: A woman, Manzooran, her daughter, Sonia, and brother, Attaullah, who were injured in Rohri after the woman?s husband, Farid Shaikh, threw acid on them three days ago, will be shifted to a Karachi hospital.
Sukkur District Nazim Syed Nasir Hussain Shah visited the injured people at the Sukkur Civil Hospital on Tuesday and ordered their shifting to Karachi on doctors? advice. He said the district government would bear the expenses.
Expressing their resentment over a Punjab Assembly resolution regarding the Gujranwala incident, he said instead of supporting people, the assembly passed the resolution in favour of police who fired upon the people.
Dr Soomro alleged that the rulers were naming religious clerics and Mujahideen as terrorists and extremists to make their western friends happy.
LIFE TERM AWARDED: The Anti-Terrorism Court-I, Sukkur and Larkana bench, here on Tuesday sentenced three people to life imprisonment and ordered forfeiture of their property worth Rs50,000 each in a kidnapping for ransom case.
The convicts were identified as Niaz Hussain Mangi, Mohammad Mithal Junejo and Abdul Qadeer Shaikh.
They had kidnapped Mujeebur Rehman, 2, son of Ghulam Qadir Bhutto, in Larkana on May 12, 2004, and later contacted his parents for Rs1 million as ransom.
On a tip-off, police had arrested the accused and released the child.
30 INJURED: More than 30 people were injured when a passenger bus fell into a ditch after its tie-rod broke near Rohri on Tuesday.
Four critically injured people, Haji Malik, Mohammad Ramzan, Bhanul Khatoon and Ghulam Jaffer Katohar, were shifted to the Sukkur Civil Hospital and the others, including Din Mohammad, Ali Nawaz, Zameer Hussain, Abdul Ghaffar, Baggan Shah, Abdul Rehman and Abdul Karim, were taken to the Rohri Taluka Hospital.
The driver escaped.
ACID INJURIES: A woman, Manzooran, her daughter, Sonia, and brother, Attaullah, who were injured in Rohri after the woman?s husband, Farid Shaikh, threw acid on them three days ago, will be shifted to a Karachi hospital.
Sukkur District Nazim Syed Nasir Hussain Shah visited the injured people at the Sukkur Civil Hospital on Tuesday and ordered their shifting to Karachi on doctors? advice. He said the district government would bear the expenses.
