DADU, May 27: Senior Minister Pir Mazharul Haq has said that cancellation of the order rustication of students in Sindh University is tantamount to adding insult to injury to the family of late Prof Bashir Ahmed Channar.
Responding to a statement made by members of the family of Prof Channar, he told this reporter on Sunday that the family should have been taken into confidence before re-admitting the rusticated students.
He said criminal negligence and silence of certain quarters showed that some elements were directly or indirectly involved in destroying the educational atmosphere in Sindh University.
The minister, who is also pro-chancellor of the university, said he had met the governor and requested him to take steps to restore peace in the university. If it is not done, other universities of the province will also be affected.
He said leaders of a certain organisation should not play politics on the martyrdom of Prof Channar. They were the people, he said, who had raised objections when late Channar was being given extension and now they were shedding crocodile tears.
Pir Mazhar said he had directed the then vice-chancellor of Sindh University to provide jobs and other facilities to the heirs of late Channar and it had been done.
Processions: Electricity consumers took out processions in Mehar, Khairpur Nathan Shah, Johi, and Khudabad on Sunday in protest against unscheduled loadshedding of 16 to 18 hours, issuance of detection bills and illegal connections given to ice factories, tube-wells and flour chakkis.
Protesters fro Mehar town and adjoining areas were led by Yaseen Solangi, Habibullah Siyal, Zahid Khaskheli and Ahmed Ali Chandio.
They burnt tyres and raised slogans against power outages.
Yasin Solangi said that because of loadshedding at three feeders of Mehar people, including patients in hospitals, were suffering.He said people’s lives and business had been severely affected because of disruptions in power supply from Radhan, Betto, Old Betto, Ali Mardan, VIP Betto, Kazi Arif and Kolachi feeders in taluka Mehar.
In K.N. Shah, consumers took out a procession against Sepco’s failure to act against illegal connections.
Their leader Hafiz Amin Jamali said people had been deprived of many facilities because of loadshedding of 18 hours at Khairpur Nathan Shah, Gozo and Theba feeders.
Ali Hassan said that because of power outages, two persons, Shamsuddin 55, of the village of Mian Mohammad Saleh Pirzado, and Adam Mallah, 55, of Pejaho had fallen unconscious and died. He demanded action against Sepco officials.
People of Khudabad, Meenho Khan Bhand, Pipri, Changlani, Phakka and Chakrani Lund villages held demonstration in Khudabad on Sunday in protest against 48 hours of power outage. They were led by Ali Akbar, Aslam Bhand, Asif and Hussain Bux Bhand.
Ali Akbar alleged that ice factories and tube-wells had taken illegal connections by paying bribe and deprived their villages of regular power supply.
Residents of Johi town and adjoining villages took out processions against issuance of inflated electricity bills and loadshedding.