PPP slams govt interference in Sindh

Published December 17, 2002

LARKANA, Dec 16: The activists of the Pakistan People’s Party women’s wing and the Sindh People’s Students Federation here on Monday took out two separate processions and observed a token hunger strike.

They were protesting against the interference of the Center in formation of a government in Sindh and the beating of the MPAs in the premises of the Sindh Assembly.

Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto led the rally of the women wing and Abid Leghari that of the SPSF.

Both of the rallies were taken out from the PPP office in the Kennedy Market. At the end of the rallies, the participants gathered outside Jinnahbagh, where they burnt tyres.

Speaking on the occasion, PPP women’w wing and SPSF leaders criticized the siege of the Sindh Assembly and arrest of Mohajir Qaumi Movement MPA Younus Khan in an indecent way.

They called for ending Centre’s interference in the parliamentary affairs of Sindh for it would set a bad example.

MURDER CASE: The district police officer of Larkana, has recommended to the DIG, Sukkur region police, to dismiss the suspended Mahota SHO for covering the murder of Shamshad Kehar after taking bribe from her killers.

The suspended SHO, Abdul Nabi Rind, had accepted bribe in the murder case of the girl, who had been stoned to death in the Agani village some days ago, the police said.

The DPO, Larkana, Abdul Sattar Detho, told this correspondent here on Monday that he had not only issued a show-cause notice to the suspended SHO but had also sent recommendations to the DIG of police, Sukkur region, for Rind’s dismissal from service.

The DPO, investigation, Inayatullah Soomro, expressed hope that in a couple of days, with the arrest of the main accused, Manzoor Kehar, everything regarding the murder of Shamshad would become clear.

Abdul Razzak Brohi, who heads the investigation, said that a villager, Anwar Khokhar, whose name was not cited in the FIR, was also involved in the murder.

According to information, received by the investigation team, Khokhar, with Sajjad Kehar, the brother of the deceased, had not only killed the girl but also wrapped her body in a bed sheet and disposed it of at certain undisclosed place, Brohi revealed.

He said that Khokhar also had vacated his house, with four other families, and moved to some undisclosed location to escape arrest. “We are chasing the accused and they would be arrested soon,” hoped the DSP.

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