HYDERABAD, June 26: Office-bearers of the Association of Peoples of Asia on Sunday demanded that Khokhropar-Monabao border and Indian consulate in Karachi should be reopened.

They said that a date for reopening of the consul should be announced in order to end unrest among the people of Sindh.

In a statement issued here, the president of the APA-Pakistan, Khurshid Ahmed, the president of the Sindh chapter, Zafar Rajput and information secretary Abbas Ali Jafri called upon the prime ministers of the two countries to reopen the Indian consulate in Karachi before the opening the Khokhropar border.

They said if the consulate was not reopened then the people would have to go to Islamabad for seeking visas and that would be expensive for those intending to visit India.

They said the reopening of the Sindh-Rajasthan route was in the interest of the common man.

They said about 90 per cent visitors to India belonged to Sindh whose relatives, friends and acquaintances were living in that country.

They said if it was not done then it would be great injustice with the people of Sindh.

HDP: Consultants of Rs10.5 billion presidential Hyderabad development package have claimed to prepare base maps of sewerage, drainage and water supply related schemes through satellite imagery.

They held out an assurance that all development works to be executed under the HDP in three and half years would meet international standard as carried out in the USA.

They were briefing a select gathering of industrialists, journalists and elected representatives in the Sindh Assembly and local bodies’ at the circuit house.

Local Bodies Adviser Waseem Akhtar, Muttahida Qaumi Movement MNA Prof Khalid Wahab, MPAs Dr Arshad Shah, Aslam Pervez, Taluka Nazims and DCO Mohammad Hussain Syed were present on the occasion.

The director of the Osmani and Company (Pvt) Ltd, Mr Arif Osmani, said the HDP had been divided into eight sectors including preparation of the master plan, sewerage and drainage, water supply, transportation, solid waste management, beautification, environmental uplift and uplift plan of the defunct district’s rural areas.