HYDERABAD, Oct 17: Ghulam Mohammad Laat, a local anti-Arbab leader, has called for re-polling in the Tharparkar district under the army supervision.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club on Wednesday, Mr Laat also called for registration of cases against the supporters of Arbab Ghulam Rahim for torturing their opponents.

He said rigging had taken place on NA-229 and PS-62 where his son, Gul Mohammad Laat, had contested the election against Arbab Ghulam Rahim and his brother.

He said Mr Rahim had become the Sindh minister for local bodies a month prior to the election and had posted DSP Mehtab Shaikh as the DPO, Tharparkar. He said that the DSP was a close friend of the SDA chief, Imtiaz Shaikh.

He accused the DPO, Tharparkar, Mehtab Shaikh, of harassing the people of the area.

Mr Laat told the newsmen that the district Nazim had expressed his reservations, regarding his posting, to the Sindh governor.

He said that 100 per cent valid votes were shown to be in favour of Mr Rahim, which, according to him, was not possible.

Mr Laat charged that the police officials had themselves stamped the ballot papers in PS-62, where 78 polling stations had been established.

He said that on the insistence of the Arbabs, the DPO had registered false cases against 200 people.

Mr Laat demanded the government to provide them protection and withdraw false FIRs.

Nazim: The Nazim of Unarpur union council, Dadu district, Ghulam Nabi Rajar, has denied that the Rajar community of Ramzan Rajar, Siddiq Rajar and Chakar Khan Rajar goths was being victimized. Speaking at a news conference at the press club here the other day, he said the allegations levelled by the editor of the daily Koshish, Rasheed Rajar, were baseless.

Rasheed had alleged at a press conference on Sunday that the district Nazim and the Nazim of the union council had been victimizing the Rajars for their decision to vote for Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah, an SDA-National Alliance candidate for NA-231.