LARKANA, Nov 9: The Sindh Bar Council members from here will challenge the decrease in the number of the council members made through an ordinance in the court.
This was said by Asif Soomro and Ayaz Soomro, the members of the council, who are candidates for second term in the Bar elections to be held on November 27.
They told this correspondent on Tuesday that there was no justification for decreasing the Bar seats through an ordinance in the presence of the parliament.
What had compelled the rulers to make the decision in haste, they asked and said that the government wanted to tame the advocates who had been in forefront of the struggle for restoration of democracy.
The advocates had never condoned illegal, unconstitutional and undemocratic rule of a dictator, they said.
They pointed out that the Sindh High Court and district bar associations had, through resolutions, condemned the decision and demanded restoration of the Sindh Bar Council seats for Larkana.
VICTIMIZATION: The Sui Southern Gas Workers' Union has alleged that the company management is victimizing its workers.
In a press statement here on Tuesday, the regional secretary of the CBA union, Ashfaq Soomro, said that the general manager (human resources) of the Sui Southern Gas Company was suspending, demoting and transferring workers and terminating their services under false charges.
He alleged that the official was hushing up workers' voice through illegal charge-sheets, inquiries and even threats in the name of intelligence agencies.
Ignoring the children of retired and deceased workers, the management was busy in recruiting its blue eyed boys which was against the agreements it had made with the union, he said.
PROTEST: A group of women with their children held a demonstration outside the press club here on Tuesday in protest against the Mehar police.
They apprehended that the police might kill a detained man, Akbar Lakhair, arrested from the Banho Lakhair village.
Ms Soni, the mother of Akbar, told journalists that police from Mehar and Khairpur Nathan Shah had arrested his son a couple of days ago and feared that the police would kill him.
She said that last year his two others sons, Ali Asghar and Ali Anwar, had been killed by their enemy Qurban Lakhair who was an influential man.
Police was pressuring her family, she alleged, to withdraw the case in which Qurban was in jail, she said and added that had complained to the regional police officer, Hyderabad, and DPO, Dadu, but in vain.
Now the Mehar and Khairpur Nathan Shah police had picked up her son and was threatening her to withdraw the case, she said and appealed for justice.