MIRPURKHAS, Jan 4: A large number of growers staged a protest demonstration on Thursday in front of the Mirpurkhas Sugar Mill to protest its closure. The growers ended their protest after successful negotiations with the mill management.
Led by taluka nazim of Sindhri, Sarfaraz Junejo and Mansoor Cheema, the growers held a protest demonstration outside the Mirpurkhas Sugar Mill. Heavy contingents of police were present there to avert any untoward incident while strict security measures were taken by the security guards of the sugar mill.
Negotiations were held between the growers’ representatives including the taluka nazim of Sindhri, Sarfaraz Junejo, Mumtaz Ali Mari, taluka nazim of Hussain Bux Mari, Mansoor Cheema, nazim of UC Mirwah Gorchani, Chaudhry Ehsanul Haq and officials of the mill. Negotiations proved fruitful as mill management assured the growers that the mill suspended its operations for routine cleanliness of its boiler and the growers would be issued indents on Friday. They added that mill would resume its crushing from January 6 if no technical problem cropped up. Later, the protest was called-off.
An official of the mill, Ghulam Haider Rustamani, told newsmen that cane growers were blackmailing the mill managements and there was no reason to hold protest demonstration because sugar mill did not issue any notice to the growers and the mill was closed for a routine cleanliness.
DNA TEST: Blood samples of Abdul Sami 16, the slain son of an industrialist Nawab Abdul Sattar, were sent to a Lahore laboratory for DNA test.
He was brutally murdered after being kidnapped a few weeks ago. Blood samples of Nawab Abdul Sattar and his wife were also obtained.
On Thursday, a team of doctors headed by civil surgeon Dr Roshan Ali Bhatti obtained blood samples of Abdul Sattar and his wife.The samples were sealed and sent to Lahore for DNA test.
Abdul Sami 16, son of Nawab Abdul Sattar, was kidnapped on December 5,2006 and his body was found stuffed in a gunny bag lying in an under construction building in the jurisdiction of Darakhshan police station, Karachi.
Edhi volunteers buried the body after declaring it unclaimed. The Mirpurkhas police arrested Arshad Nabi Dar and Rashid Arain, who confessed their crime and pointed out the place where the body was thrown. Later, it was exhumed and buried in Mirpurkhas.
STRIKE: A complete strike was observed by jewellers here on Thursday against police failure to check theft and robberies. The strike was observed following a theft committed in a jeweller's shop and a general store in Shahi Bazar in which cash and gold ornaments worth million of rupees were stolen on Wednesday night.