LARKANA, Jan 6: District Nazim Khursheed Junejo on Monday urged the Sindh government to launch an operation against outlaws in the district. In a letter to the Sindh home secretary , he said the army troops and rangers might be used in the anti-bandit operation to save the people from criminals.

He said bike snatching, drug pushing and kidnapping for ransom had become the order of the day. He said in the month of December 11 people were kidnapped from Ratodero taluka which happened to be the constituency of People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto.

Mr Junejo said in the recent past two brothers of Khohar clan were kidnapped and brutally slaughtered and Najam Abro the younger brother of Naib Nazim of Taluka council Larkana had been shot dead.

He said the terror had caused insecurity and the business community was also not safe to carry out its activities smoothly. He said murders, kidnappings, robberies, crimes against women and children were occurring daily. This demands your personal attention, the Nazim asked the home secretary.

The district Nazim said the shifting of outlaws from the neighbouring districts to Larkana district was the main cause of instability and lawlessness. He demanded that foolproof contingency plan should be prepared to keep the law and order situation peaceful.

STRIKE ENDED: Whole sellers of medicines on Tuesday called off their strike after the district drug inspector obtained samples of medicines, seized from a medical store, for examination.

The district health officer, Dr Khalil Katpar, who on Monday took the medicines, reportedly sub-standard, handed them over to district drug inspector Mohammad Idrees Shaikh at the Market police station.

He said under the Drug Act, 1976, the medicines would be sent to the Karachi office for further examination. The medicines were seized from the Al-Rehman Medicos, Larkana, on Sunday after Liaquat Shaikh, a member of the vigilance committee, raided the store in presence of the police.

Later, Larkana Taluka Nazim Nazeer Shaikh arrived at the scene and locked the shop, which sparked the protest. On Wednesday, the taluka Nazim came to the shop and unlocked it in presence of office-bearers of the Chemists and Druggists Association.

The Market police station SHO said the van and medicines were released on the condition that the samples would be examined and if found sub-standard, the medicines and the van would be handed over to the police.

Chemists and Druggists Association president Mohammad Hanif Shaikh complained about the selling of sample medicines in open market and said health authorities were doing nothing to stop the business.

ARRESTED: The Larkana police arrested the alleged killer of a local People's Party Parliamentarians leader in the Wada Mahar village on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday.

A pistol was also recovered from the accused. The PPP leader, Najmauddain Abro, was killed at his car showroom near the fish market on Dec 30.