HYDERABAD, July 4: A young girl, belonging to the Kolhi community, was subjected to criminal assault here on Wednesday in jurisdiction of the Husri police station.
The Husri police have lodged a case but no one was arrested.
Reports said that the girl was the peasant on a piece of land near the Zeal Pak Cement Factory and the landlord, alongwith his friends, subjected her to criminal assault.
The victim was brought to the Hyderabad Civil Hospital for medical examination. Her further medical examination was required to be conducted.
The police told newsmen that a case had been registered against four “unidentified” culprits who, the victim said, could be recognized by her.
The landlord is said to be councillor of a union council.
ADDS OUR BUREAU: The regional project coordinator of the Aurat Foundation, Sindh, Adam Malik, announced here on Thursday that women councillors’ conferences would be held in different districts of Sindh to highlight problems of women councillors.
The first such conference will be held in Khairpur on July 5 which will be followed by other conferences in Sukkur, Ghotki, Larkana, Mirpurkhas, Umerkot, Sanghar, Thatta, Hyderabad, Nawabshah and Naushahro Feroze.
The conferences will also be attended by district Nazims, district coordination officers and other officials and recommendations of the conferences will be submitted to the government and other officials concerned.
SPSF: A large number of activists of the PPP (SB) staged a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Thursday against the arrest of party activists, Ali Ahmad Palepoto and Majeed Siyal.
Talking to newsmen, Aurangzeb Jamali, Syed Roshan Shah, Shakeel Gopang and others said the authorities were bent upon eliminating the followers of Mir Murtaza Bhutto.
They said Palepoto and Siyal, who were arrested by the police weeks back, were disappeared and their whereabouts were not known.
They said they had been protesting against the arrest of their leaders for the last 28 days but the authorities had taken no notice.
They demanded that the whereabouts of Palepoto and Siyal should be made public otherwise, they warned, consequences would be serious.
harassment alleged: The leaders of the Tajran-i-Maweshian Welfare Association (TMWA), Sindh, have condemned the Jacobabad taluka Nazim for issuing threats to leaders of the Shehri Ittihad (SI).
They also condemned the arrest of Ghulam Nabi Rind, the chairman of the SI, Jaccobabad, who was later released after the people besieged the police station.
In a statement issued here on Thursday, TMWA president Baloch Khan Lashari, Latif Qureshi, Hahi Rana Rind and others said that under the orders of the Sindh governor, the DCO, Jaccobabad, had shifted the cattle market back to the city which had been earlier shifted outside the city by the taluka Nazim.
They said to celebrate the occasion, the Shehri Ittihad brought out a procession which annoyed the taluka Nazim and he got the chairman of the Ittihad arrested and also threatened the business community of dire consequences.
They demanded of the Sindh governor to take notice of the threats being issued to the leaders of the Shehri Ittihad and order the removal of the taluka Nazim, Jaccobabad, failing which, they warned, the cattle merchants would stage a province-wide protest.