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SUKKUR, July 13: Tension between the Jatoi and Maher tribesmen rose in Sukkur and Shikarpur districts after a rocket was fired at Turat village near Lakhi Ghulam Shah, Shikarpur district, on Saturday.
An exchange of fire also took place in the village in which Sikander Ali Jatoi was seriously injured. He was shifted to the Chandka Medical College Hospital, Larkana.
A wheat stock was also put on fire which turned to ashes.
Reports reaching here said that both the groups were entrenched against each other and trading fire in several villages of both the districts.
Last week at a meeting at the circuit house here, both the chieftains of the Maher and Jatoi tribes had agreed to settle the tribal dispute through a jirga.
The meeting was called by the Sindh home secretary and attended by the IG, Sindh police, and senior officials of the police and the administration.
However, due to unknown reasons the jirga could not be held.
Ponam: The president, Ponam, Dr Qadir Magsi, has said that Sindh was passing through a critical phase these days because the rulers appointed lackeys as ministers in Sindh to ensure their success in the coming election.
He was talking to newsmen at Jacobabad at the residence of the district president, Ponam, Ramzan Khokhar.
He deplored the fact that the PPP and the PML(N) were acting as silent spectators on anti-Sindh policies, and although they had been awarded punishment by the rulers yet they were not ready to wage a struggle against the government.
He said the election was just a farce.
Mr Magsi warned that the people of Sindh would not accept those people who were elected in these elections and would reject all such plans which were aimed at the destruction of Sindh.
SINDH CABINET: It has been learnt from reliable sources that the minority leader, Dr Kanwar Chawla, brother of the slain leader, Saddam Chand Chawla, will be inducted in the Sindh Cabinet.
Sources said that the Sindh governor, Mohammedmian Soomro, gave an assurance regarding it, and indicated that Dr Kanwar would be contesting from Jacobabad.
DEMO: The residents of New Pind, including women and children, held a protest demonstration in front of the Taluka Council office on Friday against the non-supply of water and collapse of the drainage system in their locality.
The protestors raised slogans against the Taluka Nazim.
They said that their locality did not have a single drop of water.
They demanded the immediate supply of water on a regular basis.
The residents of New Pind have been facing an acute water shortage ever since the water-pumping machines of the Taluka Council became faulty a week ago.
