THATTA, Jan 20: Twenty-six passengers were injured, nine of them critically, when a Badin-bound coach (JB-0748) collided head-on with a Karachi-bound van (LE-8891) near Aari camp on the National Highway, about two kilometres off Gharo, on Tuesday.

The critically injured, Anwar Lakho, Ghulam Haider, Karim Bux, Salamuddin, Anwar Ali, Peroz, Shahnawaz, Luqman and Misqeen, were taken to Karachi through Edhi ambulances and other vehicles. The remaining 17 persons were admitted to the Rural Health Centre, Gharo. The police arrested coach driver Noor Mohammad Brohi and registered an FIR.

VOTER LISTS: People's Party Parliamentarians MPA Sassui Palijo has condemned the inclusion of fake names in voters' lists, particularly in her constituency.

Talking to journalists here on Tuesday, she termed it a conspiracy to covert a non-Sindhi minority into a majority. She said PPP teams made enquiries in Gharo, Dhabeji, Mirpur Sakro, Boharo and other areas and found duplication of names in the lists. She said officials had enrolled non-existent people in connivance with vested interests.

Meanwhile, PPP senior vice-president Syed Masood Mustafa Shah in a telegram to the Election Commission chief complained that local authorities were not enrolling genuine voters.

He said he had found 50,000 names duplicated in various union councils. He demanded that the registration date should be extended and duplicate names should be removed from the lists.