HYDERABAD, July 11: Representatives of taluka and union councils Hyderabad belonging to the Awam Dost have accused the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) of harassing them through police to make them change their loyalties in its favour.

Taluka Nazim of Hyderabad rural taluka, Haji Khawind Bux Jahejo, Naib Nazim Mir Ashraf Talpur, MPA Syed Amjad Hussain Shah Jilani, Syed Shafqat Hussain Shah, Khan Mohammad Chandio, Abdullah Khan Shoro and others expressed the apprehensions during a press conference here, on Wednesday.

They further alleged that at the instigation of district Nazim Hyderabad, the Awam Dost Nazim of Husri Union Council, Abdullah Khan Shoro was being harassed by the SHO Husri Police Station Yar Mohammad Nizamani and his staff.

Jahejo said police parties were being sent to Shoro's house and his councillors being threatened if they failed to support the MQM.

He said only a week back a delegation including himself and his Naib Nazim Ashraf Talpur, Sahfqat Hussain Shah, MPAs, Pir Amjad Hussain Shah Jilani, Zahid Ali Bhurgari and other councillors called on the DPO Hyderabad and informed him of the harassment unleashed by the SHO Husri.

He said the DPO assured them that he would issue necessary directives to the SHO and asked them not to feel apprehensive.

However, the SHO was performing the role of MQM’s kamdar and continue to harass elected representatives and threatens of registering false cases if they failed to join the MQM.

He said earlier the Awam Dost Nazim of the UC Moosa Khatian Syed Shafqat Hussain Shah too had been implicated in several cases and sent to jail.

Jahejo said as this was an election year therefore the MQM was mounting pressure on the Awam Dost representatives to change their loyalties.

He called upon the authorities to take notice of the highhandedness of the MQM leadership and police.

Taluka Nazim further complained that the rural taluka was ignored in the development SCHEMES AND ADDED: District Nazim was making hollow claims of launching development schemes although not a penny had so far, been spent on the development of rural Taluka.

EMERGENCY CENTERS: The district government had established seven fixed emergency centres and formed a mobile emergency team comprising qualified veterinary doctors and field assistants to provide treatment to the animals and crops, which had been affected by the recent heavy rains, said the EDO of agriculture on Wednesday.

The EDO Shahabuddin Siddiqui said that the centres would be established under the rain emergency plan approved by the district government.