KHAIRPUR, July 9: Sindh PPP president Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that people of Sindh will reject supporters of Kalabagh dam, Thal canal and other anti-Sindh projects in local body elections. Speaking at a gathering of party workers at Wada Machhiyoon, Pir-Jo-Goth, on Thursday night, he said that a recent statement of the Sindh chief minister that the government would win in eight districts of Sindh was an ample proof that ‘rigging will be done during the elections’.

He said that the chief election commissioner should take notice of the statement of the chief minister.

TRANSFER: PTCL authorities on Friday transferred DET and SDO of Khairpur, Mohammad Hayat Domki and Sharafuddin, and asked them to report to the director of PTCL in Sukkur. They were transferred after an inquiry into the failure of zero-dialling in the main telephone exchange.

Shakeel Ahmed Siddiqui has been appointed the new DET and Khadim Hussain Jumani new SDO.

Subscribers of PTCL V-phone, the wireless service, took out a procession, saying that phone sets provided by the PTCL were out of order for the last two months and they had given these sets to the SDO for repair which had not been done yet.

PROTEST: Growers of the Siyal minor, Kaleri minor, Razidero minor and others took out a procession against water shortage in their waterways.

Growers of the Siyal minor staged a demonstration near regulator of the minor on tenth consecutive day and observed a token hunger strike.

Comrade Ismail Qureshi, a leader of the Sindh Hari Committee and local leaders of the JSQM also joined the protests.

The growers said that due to shortage of water, the crops had damaged while Scarp tube wells in the area were also out of order for the last three years.

DROWNS: A youth, Ghulam Ali, drowned in the Mirwah canal near Sorah Chowk, Kotdiji.

The body was fished out on Friday morning. The deceased was a resident of Sukkur.