LARKANA: 60 students’ fate hangs in balance
LARKANA, March 22: The fate of at least 60 students of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Government Degree College, Larkana, hangs in balance as the college administration had stopped their classes after it had failed to get the college affiliated with Shah Latif University, Khairpur.
Mansoor Channa, the representative of the students, told Dawn here on Friday.
When contacted, the college principal Prof Imdad Memon said that Shah Latif University was demanding Rs200,000 to grant affiliation while University of Sindh and Karachi University granted affiliation for only Rs50,000 and that was why they had discontinued the computer classes.
SEA: Around 80 activists of Sindh Employees Alliance (SEA) continued their token hunger strike here on fifth consecutive day on Friday.
They are demanding the acceptance of their charter of demands and the reinstatement of five primary teachers of Sukkur.
Talking to the participants, the district president of the SEA, Liaqat Ali Dedar, general secretary, Prof Syed Asghar Ali Shah, and others threatened of extending the movement if the demands were not met.
JAILED: The division bench of Sindh High Court, Larkana circuit, has sent two police personnel to jail for a week and issued show-cause notice to the SHO, Dodapur.
ASI Mazari Khan and head constable Imdad Ali of Dodapur police station were sent to jail till March 28 in the wake of recovery of five illegal detainees at the police station by the deputy registrar of Sindh High Court on March 15.
When the raid commissioner Abdul Qadeer Soomro inquired about the the entry of the arrests in the roznamcha, the two police staffers told him that such entries were usually made on plain papers.
The diary (Roznamcha) from March 13 to 15 was blank.
The SHO, Dodapur, Abdullah Awan with the police personnel appeared in the court on Thursday when the court issued show-cause notice to the SHO with the direction to appear on next hearing fixed on March 28.
HOLIDAY: Larkana District Nazim Khursheed Ahmad Junejo is to declare April 4, the 23rd death anniversary of the PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a local public holiday.
Sources close to the office of the district Nazim disclosed that Mr Junejo had signed the notification in this regard on Thursday.