DADU, Oct 22: A large number of councillors, PPP workers, employees of the Taluka Municipal Committee and Lower Staff Association, Dadu, staged a demonstration outside the press club for an hour on Tuesday to protest against the arrest of the president, Taluka Municipal Committee employees, Basheer Ahmed Solangi, its general secretary, Ghulam Abbas Suhag, and eight others.
The demonstrators were carrying banners, placards, and chanting slogans against the administration.
They were led by the president, Lower Staff Association, Hajan Panhwar, Councillor Hashim Qambrani, PPP Taluka President Abdul Karim Mallah.
Addressing the demonstrators, Hajan Panhwar said that the Taluka Municipal Administration, Dadu, had not paid salaries to the employees since the last two months and when the office bearers of the employees association demanded their salaries they were arrested.
MELA COMMITTEE: The DCO, Abdul Razzaq Abbasi, who is also chairman of the Mela Committee, Sehwan Sharif, presided over a meeting of the Mela Committee at the irrigation rest house, Sehwan, on Tuesday.
The DCO told the meeting that all basic facilities would be provided to the people during the three days of the annual Urs of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar.
The DPO, Ali Akbar Bhangwar, informed the meeting that all precautionary measures had been taken to face any eventuality during the Urs which would last three days from Oct 25 to 27.
He said that 3,000 police officials would perform their duty at the Mela.
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