HYDERABAD, July 3: Jamshoro District Nazim Malik Asad Sikandar on Tuesday announced compensation of Rs50,000 each to heirs of Azmat Khoso and Wali Gul Khoso who recently died in the Kubi area of Manjhand taluka due to floods.

The nazim visited Kubi, Gul Hasan Khasheli, Chand Khaskheli, Shah Awais Karni villages and Manjhand town to assess the situation after heavy rains and flash floods. Nazim was accompanied by the DCO Jamshoro Ghulam Akbar Leghari, district Naib Nazim Abdul Hameed Buledi, DPO K.K. Memon, EDO health Ali Akbar Dahri and other senior officers.He directed installation of a medical dispensary and power transformer in the affected villages immediately and announced distribution of 2,000 ration packets among rain-affected families.

He formed a committee and directed it to submit a report within one week regarding loss in Manjhand taluka villages and of standing crops so that he could move the Sindh government to declare the affected areas as calamity hit.

He said that he would also request the Sindh chief minister to announce a special package or grant for the rehabilitation of displaced villagers. The RBOD staff had changed the natural course of water coming from the mountains by raising bunds which played havoc in Manjhand taluka. He assured that he would ask the RBOD officials to rectify the situation for future.

RALLY: Activists of the PML’s dissident group staged a rally outside the Hyderabad Press Club on Tuesday in support of President Pervez Musharraf and Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim and for removal of the party’s Hyderabad district body.

S. M. Ilyas and other leaders demanded of the chief minister and Senator Ghaffar Qureshi to remove the district body of Hyderabad which did not enjoy confidence and support of party workers.

They said the present district body comprising group of five had miserably failed to reorganise the party and demanded constitution of a new body comprising senior leaders of the district.