KHAIRPUR, Oct 17: The chairman of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), Bashir Khan Qureshi, has said his party will continue to support the Muttahida Qaumi Movement on issues of Sindh.

He was talking to newsmen after attending the hearing of his case, registered against him following the JSQM’s protest on June 10, 2001, against the water shortage in Sindh, in the sessions court here on Thursday.

Answering a question, Qureshi said the Sindh Assembly had rejected the Kalabagh dam thrice but the federal government had not abandon it.

KILLED: A a child and a woman were killed and six others were injured in two separate accidents here on Wednesday.

Fiza Ansari, 28, was killed and Ms Shabana, Ms Iqbal, Ms Tahira, Naveed and two other persons were injured in collision between a donkey-cart and a trailer on the Gambat Bypass, near Gehlpur village.

The injured were admitted to the Gambat Taluka Hospital.

The Thehri police arrested the trailer driver and impounded the vehicle.

Ten-year-old Wahab Shaikh died when a speedy wagon hit him at the Babarloi turn.

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