DADU, Nov 11: District People's Party Parliamentarians president MNA Rafiq Ahmad Jamali has said that Kalabagh dam and greater Thal canal projects will adversely affect the agriculture system of Sindh.

Talking to journalists here on Thursday, he demanded that the government should shelve the controversial water projects.

The PPP leader said his party would not enter into any deal with government for release of Asif Ali Zardari.

He criticized the Sindh government for failing to control law and order in the province.

He regretted that youths were committing suicides due unemployment.

TEACHERS: Hundreds of primary and secondary school teachers took out a procession from the office of the EDO, education, to the press club here on Thursday.

Led by Dadu Taluka Primary Teachers Association president Abdul Rehman Panhwar and District Government Secondary Teachers Association general-secretary Abdul Hamid Memon, they were demanding payment of salaries to 58 primary teachers.

UPLIFT SCHEMES: District Nazim Malik Asad Sikandar has said more schemes of water supply, schools and health centres will be initiated in the district during the current financial year.

He was talking to nazims, naib nazims and councillors of different union councils of the district at his resident in Kotri on Thursday.

Mr Sikandar asked the union council nazims to submit their schemes to the EDO, works and services.

He said development works would also be initiated at historic and recreational sites, including the Manchhar Lake, Rani Kot and Bado Jabal.

The nazim called upon the Sindh Zakat and Ushr department to constitute a district Zakat committee to distribute Rs60 million among deserving people of the district.

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