HYDERABAD, July 16: A large number of residents of the Frontier Colony, SITE Area, held a demonstration outside the press club here on Friday to protest against supply of polluted water to the colony.

Speaking on the occasion, the provincial vice president of the Pushtoonkhwah Milli Awami Party, Saleem Tareen, said that the colony had been facing a crisis of drinking water for the last 40 years.

Azad Khan and Saeed Akbar said that the district and taluka nazims and members of the national and provincial assemblies had been informed in writing about the plight of the people of the colony but their problem had remained unresolved.

They said that they had been compelled to resort to protest, and threatened to move a court for seeking an inquiry into the utilization of funds by the Seri union council. They demanded of the authorities to supply clean water to the residents of the Frontier Colony.

RAIDS: The superintending engineer, Pinyari circle, irrigation department, here on Friday announced that the irrigation secretary and Kotri Barrage chief engineer had raided different water channels of Sujawal division and Daro sub- division between July 12 and 16.

He said that they had closed illegal watercourses and cuts, removed pipes and lodged FIRs against different farmers on the charge of water theft. He said that the operation was aimed at ensuring water supply to the tail-end growers.

DONATION: The Association for Human Survival and Safety of Environment in cooperation with the International Development and Relief Foundation, Sindhi Association of North America, Canada, and a Canadian pharmaceutical company delivered medical equipment to the Vice-Chancellor of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Professor Jan Mohammad Memon, at a ceremony held here on Thursday.

Professor Memon thanked the office-bearers of the association - Naeem Memon, Imtiaz Kaka, Mohammad Ali Rajput and Qadir Ranjhani - for motivating the international agencies for donating medical equipments for the benefit of poor patients.