SUKKUR: Breaches develop in canals
SUKKUR, Sept 24: Breaches occurred in the Unnar Wah and the Hazaro Shakh near Kandhkot on Thursday night. The Unnar Wah developed a 150-foot-wide breach and two breaches - one 20-foot-wide and the other 35-foot-wide - occurred in the Hazaro Shakh , affecting Muneer Bachkani, Rukunuddin Bachkani, Ali Mohammad and two other villages.
Irrigation officials and villagers were trying to plug the breaches but they could not succeed till the filing of this report. Villagers accused irrigation officials of deliberately causing the breaches and demanded an independent inquiry into the matter.
MMA: Sukkur Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Maulana Abdul Qayoom Halejvi and other party leaders have claimed that the 17th constitutional amendment is aimed at extricating the country from the crisis and said Gen Pervez Musharraf should keep only one post.
Talking to party workers here on Friday, they said the MMA accepted Gen Musharraf as the president because it was the demand of the time but it had not voted for him.
They said vested interest were driving the president towards the point of no return but he could avert the ensuing crisis by fulfilling his promise of shedding uniform by December 2004.
WOMAN KILLED: A woman, Nabila, 30, wife of Maula Bux Shar, was killed near the Sakrand bypass on Thursday night. Her neck had been broken.
Talking to journalists, Mehram Shar, father of the woman, alleged that Maula Bux and his mother had tortured his daughter to death. However, no case was registered till the filing of this report.