Category: District

SANN:Renowned Sindhi nationalist leader and scholar GM Syed’s 115th birth anniversary was observed Thursday with respect and fervour.

Various nationalist parties, including Sindh United Party (SUP), Jeay Sindh Qaumi Muhaz-Aresar group (JSQM-B), JSQM-Bashir Qureshi group, Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM), Jeay Sindh Tahreek (JST), and Jeay Sindh Liberal Front (JSLF) held public gatherings in this regard and paid rich tribute to GM Sayed.

Addressing the gathering, SUP Vice President Syed Zain Shah said that GM Syed played his vital role for the progress and prosperity of Sindh as he was sincere to his politics.

Shah said it was unfortunate that since 72 years, Sindh had been demanding its due rights but the ruling government had deprived it of its due rights.

He said their struggles had always been for the rights of Sindh and would continue until due rights were given.

Shah also lashed out at government’s attitude toward Sindh. ‘’Country’s foreign policies since 72 years has remained controversial resulting in economic loss,’’ he said

Sindh’s ruling party Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have done nothing for hundreds of political activists of Sindh who disappeared. GM Syed was a political leader of Sindh and famous for his scholarly work, spearheading the Pakistan Independence bill in the British Sindh Assembly.

GM Syed was born on January 17, 1904 to the Syed family of Sindh in Sann village in District Dadu.

LARKANA:The male and female students reached Naundero from Khairpur, demanding registration of Khairpur Medical College (KMC) with Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and availability of all required facilities in KMC and the attached hospital.

They staged a sit-in and held protest demonstration in front of Bhutto House which is hometown residence of former slain Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

They shouted slogans in favour of their demands holding large banners in their hands.

While talking to media Muhammad Owais Ansari, Daud Shah, Aijaz Metlo, Bilawal Arain, Kahdija Mahar, Rabia Shah and other student leaders said that they are protesting for acceptance of their just demands since past 11 days but Sindh Government is constantly ignoring them. They said Sindh Assembly had passed resolutions two times but still required facilities have not been provided to the KMC and attached Hospital and KMC has not yet been registered with PMDC despite the fact that their teams have visited the college four times. They said future of about 500 students is at stake since past five years due to non-registration of the college with PMDC.

They said they have been forced to come out here before the residence of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari so that our demands could reach him and he may order the concerned authorities to help resolve issues faced by our institutions. They said the KMC was established during the chief ministership of Syed Qaim Ali Shah but it is irony that neither building of the college nor the teaching faculty has been so far been completed. They further said that services of faculty and staff have not also been regularized. They alleged that there are no professors for anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and other subjects and there is no auditorium or playground in the college. They also demanded provision of MRI, CT scan and other latest instruments and equipment for diagnostic purpose. They said due to these shortcomings PMDC is reluctant to register college for which Sindh Government should only be blamed. They demanded fulfillment of all requirements so that college could be registered and recognized and poverty-stricken people could be provided maximum healthcare facilities.

LARKANA:A rare endangered blind Indus Dolphin was rescued from Dadu Canal by local fishermen with the help of World Wildlife Fund Sukkur near Mohenjo Daro on Thursday.

It was first spotted by villagers who regularly cross the canal for their day today works to reach bigger towns, but they did not inform anyone to rescue it from the water.

The fishermen told newsmen that on information, they informed WWF Sukkur team which reached the spot and safely rescued the Indus Dolphin from the Canal.

They said since last few days, they were noticing the Dolphin but were not sure that it would survive due to receding water level. They said: “This rare Dolphin is blind and wanted to cross the regulator but was unable, so it was swimming from one place to another, ahead and backward. WWF’s representative Imran Malik said that the fish weight was over 40 kg and was healthy.”

He said the Dolphin would be released into its natural habitat, Indus River, so that it could survive. He said hunting of such fish species had been banned there as it was also a crime, so fishermen had been trained not to harm it so as to save its breeding. He said: “This type of rare species can remain alive for a fixed time and then they die because it is a very sensitive animal.

The rescue team, after capturing the animal, put it into a water tank where, according to them, it will remain alive and will shifted it to Indus River where it will be released.

BADIN:A notorious dacoit was arrested by the Rangers in a shootout here on Thursday.

A Rangers spokesperson said after receiving information about the robbers looting people at gunpoint in Landhi No-6, a Rangers team rushed to the scene.

He said seeing the rangers’ mobile, the robber, Muhammad Imran Bangali opened fire and tried to flee under the cover of fire, however, the Rangers chased and arrested him. They also recovered weapons from his possession.

The spokesman said during the incident two citizens sustained minor injuries. Police and ranger were conducting operation for arresting the accomplices of arrested dacoit, said the rangers spokesman.

BADIN:Former president and Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday claimed that Prime Minister Imran Khan could not complete his five-year tenure. While addressing a public gathering in Badin on the occasion of the death anniversary of a peasant leader Fazil Rahu, he said “Listen all Pakistanis, Imran Khan could not complete his five-year government term.”

He criticized Khan as saying: “You should learn to govern if you have accidentally become a prime minister.” The PPP leader further said the people of Pakistan, including Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, had rejected the last general election results. Zardari warned: “Don’t push us too much against the wall, so that it doesn’t get people out of control.”

He said that PPP had always been with the poor people, and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto was martyred under a conspiracy against the people of the country.”

Muzaffarabad:AJK President Sardar Masood Khan has stressed for evolving a comprehensive plan to convert tourism into a profitable sector for the state.

Addressing a briefing in Muzaffarabad on Wednesday, he said development of tourism will help in alleviating poverty and overcoming unemployment.

Masood Khan said the historic places and shrines of the sufi saints can be made more attractive for the tourists both from home and abroad.

Earlier, Secretary Tourism Mrs. Midhat Shahzad said fourteenth tourist spots across the state have been identified which can be developed for attracting more tourists. Moreover, seven spots in scenic Neelum Valley can be converted into camp sites, model village, tourist resorts and amusement parks.

Rawalpindi:Security Forces conducted an intelligence-based operation on a terrorist hideout in Hangu on Wednesday morning under the ongoing Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad.

According to ISPR during exchange of fire, four terrorists of proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan were killed.

These terrorists were involved in suicide attack in Kalaya, Hangu on 23 November 2018.