NAWABSHAH, Aug 17: The district Nazim, Faryal Talpur, has sent her resignation from membership of the relief committee to the Sindh chief secretary.

Talking to this correspondent on Saturday, Faryal Talpur said that she had declined to be a part of the relief committee and had sent her resignation to the chief secretary.

She said that she could not be a member according to the Sindh local government ordinance.

She said she does not trust the committee where people who had not even been elected had become chairmen and she does not want to be a party to it.

She said that the Sindh government should form a committee of elected representatives, and added that she does not recognize non-elected people.

Talking about the railway track incident, she said that it was tragic and shocking and she had asked the DPO to investigate the matter.

NO RELIEF: So far no relief has been provided to the citizens of Nawabshah district and they were wondering what the Relief Committee formed by the Sindh government was actually upto.

The chairman, Relief Committee, Nawabshah, and adviser to the chief minister, Ghulam Rasool Unnar, held an open katchehry on Saturday where problems of the people were heard.

It seemed to be a political meeting where members of the PML-Q and its allies were seen raising slogans.

PROTEST OBSERVED: The activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party held a protest demonstration and observed a sit-in on Sunday outside the Sakrand police station to protest against the arrest of a local PPP leader, Syed Sher Shah alias Eidan Shah.

Sakrand town also remained completely closed in protest against the arrest of the PPP leader.

The procession, led by MPA Ghulam Qadir Chandio, started from the Lakho House and ended at the Sakrand police station where the protesters also staged sit-in. They chanted slogans against the Sakrand police and the chief minister’s adviser, Ghulam Rasool Unnar.

Later, the Sakrand police released Syed Eidan Shah.