LARKANA, AUG 12: The district chapter of the People’s Party Parliamentarian, at a meeting held here on Monday, urged the Pakistan Petroleum Limited to employ local people at the Mazarani gas field.

Larkana PPP chief Nawab Shabir Ahmed Chandio, who presided over the meeting, told journalists that non-local people were being recruited at the oil field and the local people, who had the first right on the jobs, were being ignored.

He also said that some of the local employees, who had been provided jobs on a temporary basis were being paid only Rs100 per day, whereas non local people were being recruited on permanent posts.

The Nawab said that the PPP meeting also discussed the verdict of the Swiss magistrate against Benazir Bhutto and Asif Zardari and alleged that the verdict was an outcome of the influence exerted by the Pakistan government

Speaking on the occasion, Khalid Iqbal Memon MNA from NA-206 (Kachho), criticized the government for failing to provide relief to rain- affected people in the Kachho area.

He rejected the area relief committee and alleged that the Mukhtiarkars concerned had refused to receive applications of the affected people on the pretext that the committee members had ordered them to collect such applications through them.

He said that thousands of acres of land had been devastated and hundreds of families had been dislocated in the Kachho area and they needed relief.

DEMO: A group of the PPP women activists led by MNA Begum Ruqayya Soomro here on Monday held a protest demonstration against the Swiss court’s verdict against Ms Bhutto and Mr Zardari.

Carrying placards, they also staged a sit-in outside Jinnah Bagh.

PROTEST: The Sindh Chandia Welfare Association alleged the management of the Pakistan Petroleum Limited for denying employment to locals in the Mazarani Gas Field discovered near Gabidero, Larkana district.

Ammanullah Chandio and Shamsuddin Chandio, vice chairman and district president of the Sindh Chandia Welfare Association, Larkana, respectively led a protest demonstration in Kambar on Sunday condemning the injustice towards the locals.

They accused the functionaries of employing non-locals and criticized the Mukhtiarkar of Kambar for changing the record of rights of the land in connivance with local influential people.

The protesters burnt tyres on a section of the Larkana-Kambar road, and held a sit-in demanding the PPL management for changing its policy of ignoring locals.