HYDERABAD: Peasants protest

Published February 2, 2008

HYDERABAD, Feb 1: A large number of villagers of Goth Mohammad Sadiq Khaskheli and Goth Nando Khaskheli held a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Friday against alleged excesses of feudal lords of Tajpur.

They said that they had been cultivating the lands of the feudal lords for over half a century but now they were being implicated in false cases only to dislodge them from the lands.—BoC

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