SUKKUR, Sept 18: Leaders and workers of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz took out a procession here on Thursday to protest against construction of the Kalabagh dam and the Thal canal.
The protesters after marching through different thoroughfares reached the local press club where they observed a token hunger strike.
Speaking on the occasion, JSM chairman Syed Zain Shah said President Gen Musharraf was misguiding the people by saying that flood water would be stored in the Kalabagh dam while the fact was that after construction of the Tarbela Dam no high flood was seen in the Indus river.
He said the army wanted to seize the resources of Sindh. He alleged that the army had always looked after the interests of Punjab as the majority belonged to the province. He said though assemblies of Sindh, Balochistan and the NWFP had rejected Kalabagh dam and Thal canal projects the rulers wanted to build these projects.
Supporting the Baloch Ittehad, he said they also appreciated the call of unification by the Awami National Party.
Later, the workers of the JSM, raising slogans against the the controversial projects, called off the hunger strike.
TRIBAL ENMITY: An old enmity claimed four lives in the jurisdiction of the Usta Mohammad police station, Balochistan, on Wednesday.
Ghulam Hussain, Fateh Mohammad, Mohammad Hussain and Manzoor Ahmad, all Umrani by caste, were returning home when armed motorcyclists of the Jamali tribe opened fire on them near a cattle farm, killing them on the spot.
RELEASED: Nine persons, including two women and three children, were released from a brick kiln in Nawabshah on Wednesday.
Judicial Magistrate Syed Zahid Hussain, on the orders of the director, Human Rights, and Sessions Judge Syed Zakir Hussain Shah, raided the kiln on the Nawabshah-Qazi Ahmad Road and recovered the persons.
The magistrate ordered the SHO concerned to register a case against the kiln owner, Bachal, and his two sons, Abdul Rasheed and Dur Mohammad. The police have arrested the accused.
Mushtaq Maseeh, a kiln worker, had made a complaint to the director, Human Rights, against the kiln owner, saying that he did not pay the workers and kept them in detention.
ARRESTED: The Jacobabad police on Thursday arrested an employee of a grain merchant and recovered Rs150,000 from his possession. Kumar’s accomplices, Dharam Singh and Gur Dino, were also arrested.
The grain merchant, Sudham Chand Dileep Kumar, sent the employee, Kishore Kumar, to Dera Murad Jamali for recovery of dues.
Kumar recovered Rs350,000 and after returning to Jacobabad after some days he told the merchant that he was kidnapped by bandits who deprived him of the amount.
On Wednesday, when the employee was drunk he disclosed that he was not kidnapped and that he had fabricated the earlier story.
The merchant informed the police who raided the house of Kumar and arrested him along with his accomplices.
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