Mansoor Mirani
KHAIRPUR, Oct 23: Sindh People’s Party Parliamentarians president Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said he will move a resolution in the Sindh Assembly against forced ejection of workers of the Khairpur Mill and other people, from the colony quarters and harassing of residents through police by land mafia.
He was speaking at a protest meeting organised by the Mill Colony Action Committee here on Monday.
He alleged that the land mafia after illegally occupying state property in interior Khairpur district had started usurping land in the Khairpur city through forged documents.
The PPP leader condemned the revenue and excise department for allegedly helping land mafia by issuing forged documents to them.
He said the way residents of the colony living there for 30 to 40 years were forced to vacate the quarters was similar to how fishermen living on islands for past hundreds of years were forced to vacate the islands. But, he said, the PPP would not allow such illegality and injustice to take place.
Former district nazim Syed Nafisa Shah said the land mafia had also tried to occupy the mill colony land and other state property during her tenure but they had failed because they could not get fake documents.
She said since the inception of the present district government, land mafia had increased its activities and the state property was not secure anymore.
DENGUE VIRUS: Khairpur Abadgar Ittehad president Syed Shakir Ali Shah, general secretary Fakir Niaz Bhabhro, and former Jiskani Union Council nazim Ghulam Qasim Jiskani said here on Monday that no special ward had been established nor arrangements made in government hospitals of Khairpur for immediate treatment of victims of dengue virus.
They demanded that the government should arrange anti-mosquito spray in the district, establish isolation wards and make other necessary arrangements.
KILLED: Four armed men killed a villager, Mashooq Ali Chandio, in the Kingri taluka here on Monday.
PROTEST MEETING: The Sindh Graduate Association, Sindhi Adabi Sangat and other social organisations held a protest meeting in Kumb on Monday.
The meeting, presided over by Dr Wazir Bozdar, protested against the kidnapping of Muhib Ali Bozdar and his steward Juman Bhatti from the Baqar Bozdar village.
ARTISTES: Renowned Sufi singers, Fakirs of the Dargah Sachal Sarmast, Ghulam Hussain, Bhooral Bhatti and Qalandar Bux, and instrumentalist Ghulam Ali Noonari said around 30 singers and artistes had been invited by the district administration for the Sachal Musical Conference, Daraza Sharif.