KHAIRPUR, Dec 15: Former District Nazim Ms Nafisa Shah has claimed that the EDO education Khairpur has been canvassing for PML-F candidates and distributing offer letters.

She was speaking at a gathering in Khairpur on Saturday.

She said that five PPP candidates, in a joint press conference about a week ago, had complained that the EDOs of education and health departments were working for PML-F candidates and using official vehicles for this purpose.

Ms Nafisa said the candidates had also complained in writing to the Election Commission but no action was taken in this regard.

She said that new TPO had been appointed in taluka Gambat and ‘pre-poll rigging’ has been started wherein state machinery was being used.

She alleged that the district administration Khairpur was also pressuring government employees for rigging.

Later, Ms Nafisa withdrew her nomination papers as PPP’s covering candidate for NA-215 seat.

She went to the office of returning officer in a caravan to withdraw her nomination.

KILLED: A man was killed when an oil tanker hit him on National Highway in Ranipur late on Friday.

Reports said a Punjab-bound tanker coming from Karachi hit Ali Nawaz Ghanghro, 22, near Dastagir Gate Ranipur, killing him on the spot.

Police arrested the driver, Sherbaz Masood, and impounded the vehicle.

The body was handed over to the relatives.

Meanwhile, Nadeem Junejo, 22, was crushed under the wheels of a tractor he was driving when he fell from it in village Gaha, taluka Nara, on Saturday.

LOOTED: Dacoits looted passengers of a coach on National Highway on Friday night.

The coach was going from Karachi to Shikarpur when eight armed men boarded on the bus from Ranipur.

They held the passengers hostage at gunpoint and looted cash, wrist watches, cellphones and other valuables and escaped near Drib Mehar Shah.

Later, the passengers staged a demonstration on the highway against the robbery.