BY OUR CORRESPONDENT
HYDERABAD: Sindh National Party has said the cases against Sindh National Party leader Ashraf Noonari and others at Seri police stations were filed by Babu Burdi,brother of Aslam Burdi town officer rural Hyderabad on behest of Sindh minister Sharjeel Memon because of his being enraged on support SNP extended to Rangers for raids on corrupt officers and ministers of Sindh. Party has demanded from SSP Hyderabad Irfan Ali Baloch to hold inquiry in the cases himself to ascertain the facts. The party was being made victimized due to voice it raised against corruption and backed the operation and raids of Rangers. The party has announced to hold protest demonstrations across Sindh against false cases on party leaders. In a statement party leaders Sain Bux Banglani, Ramzan Buledi, Dr. Uzma Jokhyo and others said Ashraf Noonari was active in politics for rights of Sindh since many decades and there was no case against him across Sindh and that he has never been involved in any criminal or anti state activity. They said Aslam Burdi town officer Rural Hyderabad who had taken lacs of rupees from people for arranging govt jobs for them but when enquiry started against him he filed false cases through his brother against Ashraf Noonari and other party leaders. They said that millions of corruption was committee in Taluka Rural administration and demanded impartial inquiry in it. They demanded inquiry by DIG and SSP Hyderabad in false cases filed against Ashraf Noonari and others.
BHMBHRO SAYS RAW ACTIVITIES TO FOIL PAK CHINA ECONOMIC CORRIDOR
BY ABBAS KASSAR
HYDERABAD: Sindh National Party chairman Amir Bhambhro has said that Indian intelligence agency RAW and others have become active to foil the agreement of Economic corridor between Pakistan and China. These agencies were also attempting to worsen the situation in Pakistan to destabilize country. This he said in a statement issued Thursday. He made it clear that India,USA and few other countries were not happy with the economic corridor agreement of Pak-China as such they were behind such conspiracies. He lauded efforts of security agencies Rangers and police for their actions against terrorists under National Action Plan in which they have made historic achievements due to which the peace has been restored across country. He asked military and political leadership to be on one page and to made National Action Plan a success. He said anti Pakistan forces do not like development of Pakistan and become a powerful country. He said foreign agencies have spread their net of intelligence in Pakistan and were pushing Pakistan to proxy war.
He said Pak-China economic corridor was guarantee to progress of Pakistan which whole nation should support to success. He disclosed that RAW has set up force of 100,000 in Pakistan to foil this corridor. This force includes some nationalists of Sindh and Balochistan and of political and religious groups.
NAB & FIA inquire DC Ghotki to produce record
MANSOOR PIRZADA
GHOTKI: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Federal Investigation Agency FIA has asked to produce the office record of various departments from Deputy Commissioner Ghotki.
According to sources, NAB and FIA has created a list of at least 32 officers including local influential who remained on government positions and misused the authority, beside government officials the list also include the names of several local influential who remained the part of any corruption. NAB and FIA have asked to produce office record of their tenure from year 2008 and the record of their personal properties. Sources further added, mostly list includes names of land mafia, corrupt officers and relatives of bureaucrats.
Names in the list includes, local influential Afzal Haq Mahar, Munir Mahar, Khuda Bux Soomro, Mian Asif, Aijaz Soomro, Muktiarkar Daharki Ashraf Pitafi, Safdar Mirani, Hanif Malhan, Property Dealer Mahesh Kumar, Jam Abdul Fattah, Town officers Imdad Khokhar, Banho Mahar, Ghulam Yaseen Abbasi, Jabbar Mahar, TO Finance Imdad Mahar, MS Taluka Hospital Dr. Parmanand, Mian Javed, Mian Manzoor, Qurban Mirani, Ghulam Nabi Rajri, Imtiaz Samejo, Shaban Kalwar, Nasrullah Shaikh, Dadan Khan Mahar, Rashid Ahmed, Abdul Malik, Farid Kanju and others.
Factory workers stage a sit in protest
MANSOOR PIRZADA
GHOTKI: Hundreds of factory workers staged a sit in protest while police started aerial fire and tear gas shelling to isolate the protesters, four workers fell unconscious here on Monday in late hours.
According to details, workers from Engro Fertilizers, Mari Gas, Liberty Power Plant, and Fauji Foundation Company gathered at main gate of Engro Fertilizers on the call of labour union to demonstrate a peaceful sit in protest against the administration of Engro Fertilizers for lodging false terrorist cases on workers namely Fateh Lakhan, Shahzado Panhyar, Ranjhan Samejo and others. Large number of workers blocked roads to admin building, staged sit in and chanted slogans against Engro administration.
After seeing the large number of workers, company administration called police and rangers. Failing to control the situation police started aerial firing and fired tear gas shelling over workers resulting at least 4 workers fell unconscious.
Union leaders Ranjhan Samejo and Lakhmir Mahar told that media persons that DIG Sukkur had conducted the inquiry of alleged workers and later directed to DSP Ubauro Khalid Memon to remove the cases, DSP Ubauro called them at police station for removal of cases but he arrested their workers.
Later, on the interference of Deputy Commissioner Ghotki Tahir Wattu and Assistant Commissioner Saleemullah Odho the sit was removed and arrested workers were released.