NAWABSHAH, Oct 31: Members of district council on Wednesday offered fateha for the people who lost their lives in the gruesome blasts that hit the Pakistan People’s Party rally in Karachi on Oct 18 and condemned the terrorist attack.

Convener Abdul Haq Jamali presided over the council session held at Pir Qurban Ali hall.

Member Khair Mohammad Mahar tabled a resolution condemning the blast that targeted the convoy of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto. The members slammed the tragedy and offered fateha for the departed souls.

Abdul Rasool Brohi, Jam Feroze Unnar, Islam Khan Zardari and Khair Mohammad Mahar protested over absence of the EDO of health, NCHD and Baitul Maal officials from the session and condemned registration of FIR against nazim of union council No6, Javed Iqbal Arain.

The session passed a number of development schemes for roads and schools before the convenor adjourned it till Thursday.

CHEQUES DISTRIBUTED: District Nazim Ms Faryal Talpur distributed cheques among the heirs of Karachi blast victims at district council secretariat on Wednesday.

Cheques for Rs100,000 each were handed over to the family members of PPP workers Zohaib Ali Jamali, Mohammad Shakeel Buriro, Abdul Wahab Bhatti and Allahdino Zardari, who lost their lives in Karachi bomb blast on Oct 18.

EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE: District Nazim Ms Faryal Talpur on Wednesday inaugurated a new employment exchange office at district government secretariat.

She told journalists that non-professional and jobless youth would be provided training in different skills and data on jobless disabled persons would be collected and they would be helped.

INTERVIEWS: The executive district officer of education on Wednesday directed the candidates who had cleared written test for the post of junior school teacher (JST) to appear for interviews on Nov 6.