LARKANA, June 4: Three people including two brothers drowned in a canal near Qambar on Sunday night. Reports reaching here on Monday said that Abdul Sattar Qureshi, 18, Fareed Ahmed Qureshi, 16, (brothers) and Jawed Ahmed Chandio, 8, drowned in Koor Dattoo, an offshoot of Ghar Wah, when they were crossing it to reach their village ‘Maina’ some 50 kilometres from here.

The villagers fished out their bodies on Monday and buried them in the village graveyard.

KARO-KARI: A man shot dead his pregnant wife in Rasool Abad locality in the jurisdiction of Civil Lines police station on Monday suspecting her of having illicit relations with another man.

Muhammed Ali Khokhar who later surrendered to police with the pistol he used in the crime labelled his wife, Razia Khokhar, a ‘Kari’ and claimed that she had illicit relations with one of his neighbours.

PPP: The Larkana chapter of the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) on Monday condemned the government for its attempts to gag media and said that the party would always stand by press.

In a statement to press, Ayaz Soomro (MPA), Anwar Bhutto (MNA) and Aziz Abro, president, general secretary and vice-president, respectively, said that the media had survived innumerable government attempts to muffle its voice but it had never deviated from exposing the truth.

They said that blocking transmission of television channels and clandestinely sending press advices to the print media spoke volumes about the government’s weaknesses.