KHAIRPUR, Oct 31: Former District Nazim Nafisa Shah has criticized what she called continuation of a series of vindictive actions by the district government and district administration against government employees whose relative are affiliated with the PPP.

She was talking to delegations from Thari Mirwah and Kingri talukas here on Monday.

She said that under such vindictive actions, three doctors of the RHC Thari Mirwah, Dr Wazir Phul, and Dr Insar Ali have been transferred whereas another doctor from the RCH Thari Mirwah has been transferred to remote are of Kot Diji taluka.

Mir Hassan Solangi, president of the Paramedical Staff Union has been transferred from Khairpur to the RHC Thari Mirwah.

She said that the transferred doctors were pressurized to force their families to support the PML-F.

She said that the police under a plan were trying to label the murder of six Kandhra people as a tribal clash whereas it was purely a criminal act.

She said that the FIR of murders was not lodged by relatives of the deceased but through some middlemen as they wanted to give names of two TPOs of the Gambat taluka in the FIR, they were pressurized to put their signatures on the FIR lodged through middle men.

PROTEST: A protest gathering of Hesco consumers was held here on Monday at the residence of social activist, Shakir Ali Shah.

Hesco consumers from different Mohallas-Abid Colony, Altaf Colon, Mohalla Bachal Shah, Sirai Ganwar Khan and others attended the meeting.

The participants regretted that consumers applying for new electricity connections were facing difficulties and they were allotted wrong number of connections.

They said that in the computer section the deputy director of the Wapda Sukkur had no proper record of numbers was maintained and it was due to negligence of Hesco authorities that the consumers were suffering.

CONFERENCE: A workers’ conference of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz was held at Mohalla Bachal Shah here on Sunday.

Party chairman Syed Zain Shah presided over the conference. Speaking at the conference, Mr Shah said that since the inception of Pakistan, political, cultural, economic and other excesses had been committed against Sindh.

The conference passed different resolutions, calling for shelving the Kalabagh dam project. It also condemned arrests of nationalist leaders in Sindh and demanded their immediate release.

In another resolution, the conference demanded to issue a notification to teach Salees Sindhi as a compulsory subject at the intermediate level.

BOOKED: Nine people were booked on Sunday by the Keti Kanoori police, Gambat taluka, for allegedly occupying 300 acres of forest land.

Regional forest officer Gambat lodged the FIR against Kirr, Arif, Sikandar, Shahnawaz, Nooral, Ali Khan, Wali Mohammad, Hameedo and another person, all Bhagat by caste.

MEETING: A meeting of Kandheros was held in the Wali Mohammad Kandhero village here on Sunday.

It expressed dissatisfaction over the arrest made by police in connection with the killing of six Kandheros.

The meeting said police had failed to arrest the culprits and announced to wear black armbands on Eid.