HYDERABAD: Altaf trying to incite ethnic riots: Magsi
HYDERABAD, Aug 9: Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi on Saturday accused Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain of trying to incite ethnic riots in Sindh on the pretext of Talibanisation.
In a faxed statement, Magsi asked the Pakistan People’s Party to take notice of the utterances of its coalition partner and called upon Sindhis to remain alive to the impending danger.
Magsi said that in 1987 Altaf had urged Urdu-speaking people sell their TV and radio sets and refrigerators to buy weapons. Since then, Sindh had witnessed a bloodbath on its sacred land, he said.
He regretted that the PPP government was maintaining a discreet silence on the activities.
MANNU: Awami National Party has expressed solidarity with Mannu Bheel and urged the PPO of Sindh Babar Khattak to take action against police officers who have registered a false case against the ill-fated man.
In a statement issued here on Saturday, the district president of the party Haji Sher Zaman demanded that Mannu’s kidnapped family members should be recovered and expressed fear at the same time that they might have been killed by now.
That was the reason that false cases had been registered against him to pressurise him to give up his demand for recovery of his family, he said.
The ANP leader said that the party would continue to raise its voice at all forums in support of Mannu.
TEACHERS’ PROTEST: The Hyderabad chapter of the Government Secondary Teachers Association (GSTA) on Saturday threatened to hold demonstrations if the teachers were not promoted to next scale by Aug 15.
The association’s general body meeting held here expressed resentment over unnecessary delay in granting promotions and said that the teachers of Hyderabad district had been deprived of their right to be moved up to next scale for the past four years.
The meeting observed that all the relevant documents had been submitted to the district nazim two months ago and he was required to convene a meeting of DPC but it appeared he had put the issue on the backburner.
The meeting demanded that the Sindh chief minister and education minister transfer powers for promotions to the EDO education.
HUNGER STRIKE: About 50 haris of Setharja Farm of Khairpur under the banner of Joint Action Committee Sindh staged a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Saturday against threats of proposed eviction from the farm.
The coordinator of the committee Zain Daudpoto, president of Sindh Hari Porhiyat Council Punhal Sario, comrade Ramzan Memon and a number of local hari leaders also joined the hunger strike to express solidarity with the Setharja Farm haris.
The haris Ali Ahmed Lund, Sabz Ali, Mohammad Sharif Arain, Saeed Ahmed and others told journalists that the management had been depriving them of their just share in the production for past 18 months and demanded that the government give them justice and provide them protection against the excesses of farm management and local police.