HYDERABAD, Oct 22: Unauthorized buildings of McDonald’s and the Handball Association which are under construction at the Auto Bhan Road, Latifabad, Hyderabad, should be demolished because they had not obtained the NOC from the HDA so far.
This was decided in a meeting held at the Shahbaz Hall, Hyderabad, under the chairmanship of the Zila Nazim, Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman, on Monday.
It was also decided that an information technology university would be established in the Kohisar Housing scheme in the newly-constructed Mono-Techni College/Institute building to impart modern education to the students of Hyderabad.
The Zila Nazim further said that efforts were being made to establish a kidney centre in the Taluka hospital, Qasimabad.
He directed all executive district officers to ensure payment of electricity bills of the institutions under their control by Oct 30 and send a report to him regarding it.
He also directed the EDO, Agriculture, to prepare a plan for watercourse lining in the district so that funds could be obtained from the Sindh Government.
Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman said that residents of the main road area of Latifabad be requested to keep their houses clean and establish lawns and parks.
The meeting was attended by the DCO, Hyderabad, M Tariq Ayub, the EDO, Finance, Abdul Qadir Mangi, the EDO, Revenue, Shakeel Naqvi, the EDO, Health, Dr Qadir Bux Memon, and the EDOs of Agriculture, Works and Communication.
Earlier, the Zila Nazim visited an under-construction building of a 100-bed hospital at the Kohisar Housing Scheme, where he was informed that more than Rs35 million had been earmarked for its construction, and the OPD block of the hospital had been completed, while the indoor block would be completed by December.
JI CONDEMNS ARRESTS: The Ameer Jamaat-i-Islami, Hyderabad, Shaikh Shaukat Ali, and its general secretary, Shaikh Muhammad Hanif, and other leaders have condemned the arrest of Liaquat Baloch (vice president of the party), Fareed Ahmed Piracha (deputy secretary), and Amirul Azeem, (secretary information, Sukkur).
In a joint statement issued on Monday, they said that the central leaders of the party had come to take part in the siege of Jacobabad Airport but they were arrested in Sukkur.
They also condemned the ban on the entry of the Ameer, Jamaat-i-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmed in Sindh.
They claimed that the government could not stop the party workers from reaching Jacobabad Airport as Benazir Bhutto’s government could not stop them from reaching Islamabad in 1996.
They demanded the immediate release of the arrested leaders.
MUET: The governor of Sindh, Mohammedmian Soomro, who is also the Chancellor of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, will preside over the 20th meeting of the “Senate” of the University on Oct 25 at 9:30am.