SUKKUR: JSQM plans long march

Published January 4, 2007

SUKKUR, Jan 3: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz would stage a long march from Larkana to Sun from January 10 to 17 when the birthday of G. M. Syed would be celebrated, said JSQM organizer Sirai Qurban Khuhawar on Wednesday.

He told a news conference at the press club that the participants of the march would renew the pledge to get rid of highhandedness of Punjab.

He said that G. M. Syed always fought for the rights of Sindh and Sindhis and ‘we will adhere to his mission for the independence of our motherland.’

They said that the government had snatched natural resources of Balochistan and now it was trying to snatch resources of Sindh.

He said that many of JSQM leaders and workers were missing for a long time and the government was not providing any information about their whereabouts.

WOMAN KILLED: A woman, Hajul, was shot dead by her brother-in-law, Liaqat Mazari, over a domestic dispute in Ishaq Mazari village near Kandhkot on the Eid day.

A case has been lodged with the police but no arrest was reported.

PETROL SEIZED: Huge quantity of smuggled petrol was recovered by the police from a shop in Jacobabad on Wednesday.

According to Jacobabad DPO Muneer Ahmed Khuhro, a police party on a tip off raided the shop and recovered 230 cans of 70-litre each of smuggled petrol. They arrested two men, Ghulam Akbar Lashari and Nazir Ahmed Lashari and impounded a motorcycle and a motorcycle rickshaw.

Meanwhile, the DPO has suspended the SHO of the area police, Ibrahim Soomro.

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