KHAIRPUR, July 22: The general secretary of the Jamiat Ulema- i-Islam-F, Sindh, Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, has said that his party will not comply with the government's ban on using loudspeaker in mosques.

Speaking at the Tauhid-o-Sunnat conference here on Wednesday night, he demanded that a ban should be imposed on dish antenna, cinema and obscenity in the country.

Mr Soomro said there were 99 per cent non-Muslims in South Africa but there was no ban on the use of loudspeakers in mosques.

FARMERS BOOKED: Some 36 farmers of Mangio Shakh and Weho Wah water channels were booked by the police in two separate water theft cases on Thursday.

On the complaint of Ayub Shaikh a case has been registered at the Ahmedpur police station against 12 growers of the Mangio Shakh.

Thsoe booked were include Hussain Bux, Hassan, Maula Bux Phulpoto, Mubeen Ahmed, Abdul Karim, Nabi Bux, Abdul Rasool, Khair Mohammad, Peeral, Ibrahim, Arz Mohammad and Shahan Maitlo.

In another case, the Darogha of Weho Wah, Bux Ali Soomro, registered a case at the Thari Mirwah police station against Naveed Awan, Gul Mohammad Jalalani, Mujahid, Majeed, Nasrullah Lashari, Ibrahim Khaskheli, Karim Dad Jalalani, Ali Nawaz, Ali Mohammad Khaskheli, Rasool Bux Qambrani and others.

It may be mentioned here that some 82 farmers have been booked in the last three days in water theft cases.

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