HYDERABAD, Oct 26: More than two dozen activists of the labour wing of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League staged a sit-in outside the press club here on Wednesday. They were protesting against registration of a false case at the Matiari police station against the provincial senior vice-president of the party and former MNA Shahabuddin Shah Hussaini.
PML labour wing Leader Faqir Mohammad Solangi said that Mr Hussaini was a law abiding citizen and a responsible party leader.
He alleged that a false case had been registered against him at the instance of local PPP leaders.
He called up the president, prime minister and the Sindh chief minister to order withdrawal of the false case against Hussaini.
ELECTIONS: The central election committee of the All Sindh Primary Teachers Association has announced that the elections for the new office bearers will be held on December 11 at each taluka headquarter.
Speaking in a news conference at the press club here on Wednesday, the chairman of the election committee, Haji Nazeer Hussain Nizamani, Vice Chairman Ali Dino Jarwar and the members, Abdul Hameed Mallah and Rab Dino Junejo, said that 125,000 primary school teachers would cast their votes in the election.
They said that the detailed programme of election was being sent to 124 units of the association.
They said that the taluka and district election committees were elected and the preliminary list of voters was issued during the first phase of elections.
They said that the final list of voters will be issued on November 20 after considering objections on the preliminary list.
The committee pointed out that many teachers could not get their names registered in the preliminary list.
The committee has, however, extended the date of registration till November 10, 2005, to enable all teachers to cast vote.
DONATIONS: The chief coordinator of the Dawat-i-Islami, Hyderabad, Mohammad Kaleem Raza Atari has appealed for donations from the people of Hyderabad for the earthquake victims.
He was speaking at a news conference here on Tuesday evening.
He said that all items to donate should be submitted at the Faizan-i-Madina Afandi town camp.
He said that the people had donated relief goods worth Rs10 million on the appeal of Ameer Dawat-i-Islami, Allama Mohammad Ilyas Attar Qadri.
He said that four teams of Dawat-i-Islami had sent these goods to Islamabad.
Mr Atari claimed that 600 trucks of relief goods from all over Pakistan have reached the central relief office of the Dawat-i-Islami in Islamabad.
He said these goods were distributed among 400 villages of the Azad Kashmir and 200 villages of the NWFP.
Mr Atari said that their organization was providing food to 70,000 people and their 3,000 volunteers were working for relief of the quake victims.
He said that a tent-city has been established in sector G-7 of Islamabad.
He said that the organization has decided to construct 1,200 houses in the affected areas.
PPP: The acting president of the Hyderabad district PPP, Amanullah Siyal, has lashed out at the divisional president of the party, Abdul Sattar Bachani, for his alleged utterances against the provincial party leadership, especially Syed Qaim Ali Shah.
In a statement issued here on Tuesday, he said that Bachani had always worked against the interests of the party.
Mr Siyal said that it was due to the hypocrisy of Bachani that the PPP had lost the local body elections in the newly created Tando Allahyar district.
He demanded from the party leadership to remove Bachani from the present post and hold an inquiry against him.
JUBILEE: The Sindhi Adabi Board announced here on Wednesday to publish a special issue of the quarterly magazine, ‘Mehran’, on completion of its fifty years of publication.
The board has requested from the Sindhi writers, poets and scholars to contribute through their articles and photographs for the golden jubilee issue.