HYDERABAD: 4 more office-bearers quit Muslim League
HYDERABAD, May 29: The number of senior office-bearers of the Hyderabad chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League, who have so far announced resignations from the party’s basic membership in protest over neglect by leaders, reached 16 with four more senior workers quitting the party on Tuesday and claims that scores of workers had already left the party.
All this started after S. M. Ilyas, former district information secretary of the party, resigned on May 24, after the president Mir Sher Mohammad Talpur and the general secretary Qari Mushtaq Farooqui appointed a new information secretary without consulting with him.
Senior vice-president of PML Latifabad Mohammad Akram Meo, president Hyderabad city Shaukat Khan, office secretary city Iqbal Rehman and office secretary UC-7 city Mohammad Saleem told a news conference at the press club that they were resigning in protest against dictatorial attitude of the party’s president and general secretary.
They charged that the two had no interest in the party’s organisational matters. Their names for the party offices were proposed by the chief minister himself at a meeting of party workers at Chief Minister's House but they had not done anything to strengthen the party since their appointment four months ago. They appointed office-bearers without consulting senior party workers and named an unknown person as secretary information on the recommendation of Senator Ghaffar Qureshi, political secretary to the chief minister, in total disregard of S. M. Ilyas who was already working on the post. as information secretary.
NAZIM: District Nazim Malik Asad Sikandar on Tuesday earmarked Rs9.7 million from his special funds for the repair and carpeting of Shahra-i-Liaquat in Kotri.
He directed the district officials at a meeting at the Sehwan Development Authority hall on Tuesday to remove illegal structures and encroachments from the road.
He appointed a committee comprising prominent people of the area and elected representatives to help remove encroachments in consultation with the DCO and DPO Jamshoro.
The nazim asked the DCO and DPO to visit the under-construction bypass on the irrigation embankment and submit a report about the illegal constructions raised there.
He took serious notice of the use of substandard material in the construction of rainwater nullah and asked the district officer roads to visit the site and submit a report.
District Naib Nazim Abdul Hameed Buledi, DCO and DPO Jamshoro, advocate Ghulam Dastagir and a number of district government officials attended the meeting.
POLICE CRITICISED: One Raza Ahmed Katiar, son of Rizwan Ahmed, resident of Malir Karachi, has accused Bhittai Nagar police of implicating his father in a false arms case. He threatened to file a direct complaint in the court against Bhittai Nagar police.
Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Tuesday, he said that his father Rizwan Ahmed Katiar, his friends Syed Soomar Shah and Syed Ghani Shah and driver Adnan were on way from Karachi to their farm in Tando Muhammad Khan when they were stopped by Bhittai Nagar police.
He said police searched the vehicle and took into possession two licensed weapons and took the people to police station. He rushed to police station with the licenses but Bhittai Nagar police demanded illegal gratification for their release.