KHAIRPUR, Oct 30: The president of the Sindh chapter of Pakistan People’s Party, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, has said that residents of Khairpur are getting dirty drinking water and insanitation in the city has made their life miserable.

He was talking to a delegation of PPP city members at the Jilani House here on Monday.

He said that the government has failed to provide basic facilities to people and added that streetlights were non-functional in the city.

He said that the law and order situation in Sindh was in such a state that passenger buses were being robbed daily and the National Highway has become unsafe for travelling.

He said that political victimization was increasing in district Khairpur and added that some days back a girl, Rehana Mashori, was killed due to torture of the Naushahro Feroze police but the case was registered against a PPP activist, Altaf Mashori, and his relatives.

He said that MNAs and MPAs of the PPP will remain present in PS-11 Shikarpur-III constituency on polling day to fail pre-poll rigging plans.

He demanded of the Chief Election Commissioner to order an inquiry into the pre-poll rigging of the Sindh government to the by-election on the Sindh Assembly seat.

FIVE INJURED: Five people were injured when a truck collided with a car on the National Highway near Hingorja.

Those who were in the car identified as Safdar Pirzado, 35, Ms Noor Khatoon, 50, and three other injured were brought to the rural health centre in Hingorja from where they were referred to the People’s Medical College, Nawabshah, due to critical condition.

In another accident, a speedy wagon hit a teenage boy, Amir Hussain Mangi, 12, on the Hingorja-Setharja link road on Monday. The injured was admitted to the PMC.

27 BOOKED: About 27 people were booked for burning the Illahi Bux Kalhoro village on Monday night.

Complainant Ghulam Nabi Kalhoro lodged an FIR under section 436, 427-341, 148, 149 of the PPC that the accused persons attacked the Illahi Bux Kalhoro village on Oct 24 and after forcibly getting the village vacated they set the village on fire, wherein 30 houses and cotton crops were reduced to ashes.

The villagers sustained losses of Rs1.8 million.

Dr Abdul Fatah Bughio, Gohar Khan Bughio, Urs, Awais, Bhooro, Manthar, Ghulam Hyder, Gulab, Faqir Mohammad, Anwar, Ali Dino, Mehrab, Wazir and others were nominated in the FIR.

The complainant has further stated in the FIR that there was ongoing dispute between Channa-Bughio and Kalhoro communities over a piece of agricultural land.

Meanwhile, former Saghiyoon union council nazim Aijaz Bughio and Wadero Akhtar Hussain Kalhoro met with the DPO of Khairpur for settlement of the dispute here on Monday.

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