HYDERABAD, March 3: Under the orders of the chairperson of the Sindhi Adabi Board and provincial Education Minister, Dr Hamida Khuhro, the editor and the joint editor of women magazine Sartiyoon, Ms Gulbadan Javed and Ms Najma Panhwar, who had been suspended two months, ago were reinstated.

The suspension of the editors had been widely criticized and protest demonstrations and hunger strikes were held in Hyderabad. However, the report of an inquiry committee has not been made public.

The editors were suspended following the publication of an objectionable word in the magazine.

A spokesman for the Sindhi Adabi Board said in a statement issued here on Friday that in accordance with the orders of the chairperson of the board, letters of reinstatement had been sent to the editors by the secretary of the board.

Meanwhile, Dr Hamida Khuhro has also announced financial assistance of Rs10,000 each for noted writers and poets Sarwech Sujawali, Asim Nathanshahi, Khowaja Liaquat Panjtani, Rasool Bux Azad Surhio and Ameer Bukhari.

The financial assistance has been announced following publication of news about their illness and on the request of the secretary general Sindhi Adabi Sangat.

The financial assistance has been given from Writers’ Welfare Fund established by the board.