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HYDERABAD, May 31: The Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences' research and surveillance committee on on the quality of Indus water on Monday conducted a test on water samples which showed that the water contained harmful bacteria and it was unfit for human consumption.
The report, a copy of which was obtained by Dawn, said that the surveillance committee analyzed three filtered and two chlorinated water samples taken from different areas.
The water samples, each 200ml, had been taken from the Qasimabad main road, Block-D, Latifabad-2, Noor Centre, Chhoti Ghatti (filtered), street-3, Kali Mori, and street-12, Ghummanabad, Hala Naka (raw water), on Sunday.
It was found that unfiltered and un-chlorinated water had 90 harmful bacteria, known as Faecal Coliform Bacteria (E-Cali). People have been advised to use filtered and boiled water and take chlorine tablets.
Meanwhile, water level at the Kotri Barrage on Monday further improved. The authorities, when contacted by telephone, informed that at upstream Kotri Barrage, water level was 10,060 cusecs.
COMPUTERIZED REGISTRATION: The excise and taxation officer and Motor Registration Authority has advised the vehicle owners to feed the entire record of their vehicles and obtain computerized registration book.
In a statement on Saturday the authority urged all the government, semi-government and autonomous bodies to obtain computerized registration books within 15 days after the payment of outstanding dues.
The authority warned that checking squads would impound all the unregistered vehicles. Similar instructions have also been issued to those whose vehicles carry registration number of other provinces failing which their vehicles would be impounded.
SAB: The Sindhi Adabi Board announced on Saturday that it had earned Rs2 million in three months by publishing and sale of Unicef and Sindh Textbook Board books.
A spokesman of the board claimed that all the magazines of the board were not only published regularly but their circulation had also increased. The spokesman said that new editions of the board's 36 books had also been made available at a book shop in Hyderabad.
ARREST DEMANDED: A woman of Gulshan-i-Khair Mohammad, Site area, has threatened to commit self-immolation if murderers of her son are not arrested and awarded punishment. The elderly woman, Arbabzadi, was speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Sunday. Her husband, Dost Mohammad, was also present.
The woman said that her son, Tanveer Hussain, left home on Feb 7 in the evening but did not return home and his body was recovered from a gutter in Hyderabad Site on Feb 9. She said that her son had been killed.
She said that police had arrested some accused but they were later exonerated of the charge after police submitted a report in the court that they were not involved in the murder.
She alleged that police had taken bribe from the accused and distorted the case. She maintained that they had also approached the DSP investigation, Anwar Soomro, but he had not shown any interest in the case. She appealed to the president, prime minister and the adviser to the Sindh chief minister on home affairs to order the arrest of the murderers.
