LARKANA, March 18: Around 30 activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz were arrested in different towns of the district on Thursday. Police conducted raids in Larkana, Miro Khan, Dokri, Sujawal , Ratodero and Shahdadkot and picked up Imran Baig, Inayat Khaskheli, Imdad Panhwar, Aamir Abbas, Mazhar Ali, Khadim Hussain, Saleem Hussain, Waheed Detho, Zakir Hussain and others.
Sources said the crackdown was launched to foil the JSQM sit-in to be held on March 30 against the controversial water projects.
GSTA: Civil lines police here on Thursday arrested the district president of the Government Secondary Teachers Association, Rasheed Chandio, after registering an FIR against 30 teachers for violating section 144, CrPC.
Those booked in the FIR included Qamar Mughal, Murtaza Abro, Zahid Hulio, Ali Hassan Khokhar, Ashiq Jamali, Rehmat Kumbhar and others.
MOENJODARO: A six-member team from the Aachen University, Germany, began wall surveying and drainage planning at Moenjodaro.
An archaeologist working with the team told this correspondent on Thursday that the latest tools known as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and Total Station (TS) were used to ascertain the degree of damages caused to the walls of the ancient city, particularly to those of 93 walls, already declared leaning.
The team, led by archaeologist Michael Jansenhad, selected the DK-area for initial studies because it was prone to the salinity. Chief chemist Touseef-ul- Hassan of the National Museum, Karachi, and the staff stationed at Moenjodaro assisted the team in carrying out the survey.
The work will continue till April 4 and the findings would be submitted to the department of archaeology and Unesco to help them chalk out a plan to save the structures of the primeval urban centre.
CONFESSION: Ghulam Qadir Jagirani, a local shopkeeper, confessed to police to having killed a goldsmith Qamaruddain Khokhar by allegedly pushing him into a canal where he drowned, he said on Wednesday.
Mystery had shrouded the disappearance of Khokhar, as there was no body or clue about his death, and his relatives had time and again staged protest demonstrations in Ratodero near here.
Jagirani, presently in CIA police custody, told this scribe on Wednesday here that he had pushed the deceased into Warah Canal near Banguldero about two months back, for his refusal to repay a loan.
The police had yet not recovered the dead body of the deceased, said Ahmed Hussain Abro the in-charge of CIA police. Police have also arrested Zahida, the wife of Khokhar and mother of eight children, on the assumption that she was involved with the accused in hatching a conspiracy to kill her husband.
"They wanted to marry," police claimed. Ghulam Qadir Jagirani has five children of his own. Police said they would call divers to try and recover the body of Jagirani.
INJURED: Two persons were injured in Naudero town on Wednesday on the pretext of karo-kari. Jinsar Kharos fired at his wife Munwar Khatoon and Ghazi Kharos in Naudero and injured them. The attacker escaped while the injured were admitted in Chandka Medical College Hospital.