HYDERABAD, June 13: The Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry has expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of the PTCL, Hyderabad, and said local officials of the company do not pay any attention to resolve problems of subscribers.

In a joint statement issued here on Wednesday, the president of the Chamber, Yousuf Suleman, and chairman of the telephone sub-committee of the Chamber, Rafique Ahmed Babu Bhatti, said thousands of telephones in the city had developed faults as a result of which the subscribers were facing inconvenience.

They said no meeting of the divisional vigilance committee had been held since many months and the cases of the subscribers were lying pending.

Protesting against the indifferent attitude of the PTCL authorities, the office-bearers of the Chamber said the business community was suffering huge losses.

They demanded of the chairman of the PTCL to visit Hyderabad and meet with representatives of the Chamber to discuss the problems of the business community.

Meanwhile, the body of Seth Hidayatullah Wali Bhai, a scion of the Fateh Group, who died in Karachi on Thursday morning after a prolong illness, was brought to Hyderabad and laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard, Kali Mori, in the afternoon.

Hundreds of people belonging to the business community, government officials and representatives of NGOs attended the funeral ceremony.

He left behind a widow, one son and two daughters.

Wali Bhai was a leading industrialist of his time and had remained the president of the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry for six years.

CATALOGING: The department of economics of the University of Sindh on Thursday completed the cataloging and classification of its seminar library with more then 7,000 books on economics and other related fields.

Prof Tahmina Soomro, the principal of the Beacon House inaugurated the seminar library, renamed after her father, late Prof Mohammad Elias Abro.

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