DADU, Sept 14: Students of the Government Degree Boys College, Pilot High School, Talibul Maula High School and primary schools of Dadu town on Saturday boycotted their classes and staged a protest demonstration in front of the press club here for two hours against the Dadu investigation police.

They were carrying banners and placards, and were raising slogans against the police.

Speaking on the occasion, the protesters said three outlaws had killed Ali Gul Channa, a first year student of the Government Degree College Dadu, some two days back.

They alleged the in charge of the investigation police, SI Pir Mumtaz, had taken bribe and had not arrested the accused, nominated in the FIR.

They threatened if the accused were not arrested within 48 hours, they would continue to boycott their classes.

TUBERCULOSIS: WHO representative in Pakistan Dr Khalifa Mehmood Belie has said the ratio of tuberculosis cases is increasing in the country due to poverty and added 66 per cent of the disease has been controlled in Sindh.

Talking to newsmen at the circuit house here on Saturday, he said majority of the tuberculosis cases were reported in Thar, Kachho and other remote and backward districts of the province.

He said the WHO was paying small loans to poor people of Sehwan taluka to establish their business.

Sindh health secretary Khalid Latif Chaudhry said with the help of the WHO, Unicef and the Lasmo oil and gas company, skin disease was controlled in the area.

SUICIDE: Robina Panhwar, 22, committed suicide along with her daughters, eight-month-old Sasi and two-year-old Sourth, by taking pesticide over some domestic problems in Mohammad Yaqoob Panhwar village near Phulji Station on Friday.

DROWNED: Deedar Ali Seelaro, 25, drowned in Dhamrah Wah near Faridabad town on Saturday. The body was fished out by villagers.

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