MIRPURKHAS, April 16: Staff and students of the Government Comprehensive Higher Secondary School staged a rally on Saturday to protest against registration of an FIR against the school’s principal Shaukat Khaskheli.

Mr Sanaullah Bhatti, who led the protesters, condemned the FIR, which he said Abdul Jabbar Leghari had lodged at Satellite Town police station after the principal had tried to remove encroachments he had erected on the school land.

Abdul Jabbar even ignored the warnings of revenue officers, who had asked him not to encroach upon the land, he said.

He said the police had filed the FIR without carrying out any inquiry, and demanded that the PPO Sindh, RPO Hyderabad region and DIG Mirpurkhas should help withdraw the report.

Abdul Jabbar lodged an FIR under section 506(2), 147, 427, 504 and 382 PPC on April 11, 2006, in which he accused the principal and eight other unknown persons had went his plot-31 in Karim Town and took away 300 maunds of iron worth Rs45,000, 50 bags of cement valued at Rs19,500, 40 feet plastic pipe (Rs200), two iron rods (Rs6,000) and a water pumping machine (Rs3,000).

NAZIM: District Nazim Dr Sughra Junejo formed a district disabled rehabilitation committee on Saturday comprising journalists Afaq Ahmed and Abdul Sattar Qureshi and EDO Sports Saeedullah Khan.

She said the committee would work for the benefit of disabled persons and prepare suggestions for their betterment.

The district government would financially support the institutions already working for the welfare of disabled persons.