SUKKUR, Sept 29: The Sindh Education Department has decided to conduct the examinations of class IX and X together from the year 2007. According to this decision there will be no class IX exam in the year 2006.

THEFT: Three persons were injured while offering resistance to armed thieves in Qazi Wali Mohammad Bhayo village, near Chak district, on the midnight of Wednesday and Thursday.

The thieves broke into the house of Ali Murad Bhayo and wanted to steal cattle. They opened fire when inmates offered resistance.

As a result Nizamuddin, Badaruddin and Mohammad Yousuf Bhayo got injured and were shifted to Shikarpur hospital.

The villagers managed to catch the two thieves. Their names were Shabaan and Amanullah Kursi Jatoi.