THATTA, Jan 24: A session of the district council, presided over by District Naib Nazim Shaukat Hussain Malkani, continued for the second day at the district council hall on Friday in which a resolution was unanimously adopted.

District Nazim Syed Shafqat Hussain Shah Shirazi was also present at the session in which members adopted a resolution denouncing excesses on local Haris and land encroachments by influential people.

Mirpur Sakro Union Council Nazim Haji Ghani Gabol presented a resolution that Fareed Jamali, son of Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali, and his friends - Ghani Rind and Ali Hassan Brohi - had made the lives of the locals miserable by encroaching on about ten thousand acres of land.

The UC Nazim, while refuting the claim of Mr Rind that the land belonged to his ancestors, said the revenue department record proved beyond doubt that the said land had already been sold to the local Haris.

At this point, the district Nazim directed district coordinating officer Usman Panhwar to conduct an exhaustive inquiry and report to the house in the next meeting.

The Nazim of UC Allah Rakhio Shah told the house that the former managing director of the Thatta Cement Factory, who also had a land in the area, was implicating the Haris in false cases to get rid of them.

The house also took exception to the increasing sale and use of liquor, particularly local-made Thara (moonshine), which was raising the graph of young alcoholics.