MIRPURKHAS, March 14: At least a hundred people including women and children belonging to community organizations of various villages under the aegis of the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP), Mirpurkhas District, held a protest demonstration against the transfer of the district coordinator of the NRSP, Mirpurkhas, Ms Zahida Detho, on Thursday in front of the press club.

Carrying banners and placards, they raised slogans against the regional in charge, NRSP, Hyderabad, and demanded immediate cancellation of the transfer order of Ms Zahida from Mirpurkhas to Islamabad.

Leader of the Naujawan Samaj Sangat, Mirpurkhas, Ms Nasreen Panhwar said that Ms Zahida had refused to implement illegal instructions of the regional chief, Hyderabad, as a result of which he had her transferred to Islamabad so that he could appoint his man in the NRSP, Mirpurkhas.

Khan M. Panhwar, president, Crime Control and Social Welfare Association, Mirpurkhas, said that Ms Zahida was a hard-working woman whose services were needed by the NRSP, Mirpurkhas.

When the office of the NRSP, Hyderabad, was contacted by this correspondent, the in charge of the Rural Credit Programme, Mr Farhan, refused to speak.