DADU, Feb 28: The Dadu taluka Nazim has said a complaint will be lodged with the court against DCO Aijaz Mangi, who is the director of the district development project , for not releasing funds for water supply and drainage schemes to the taluka municipal administration.

Talking to journalists at his office on Saturday, Taluka Nazim Syed Zafar Ali Shah disclosed that a meeting of town/taluka Nazims of Sindh would be held on March 8 in Karachi to consider lodging of cases against DCOs of different districts who were violating the Sindh Local Government Ordinance, 2001, and were not releasing funds for water supply, drainage and other schemes to TMAs.

He regretted that the ordinance was interpreted differently in each district even after three years of its promulgation.

Referring to the Dadu district, he said all TMAs were being neglected. He complained that works pertaining to the TMAs were being executed by the district support unit.

He said in the absence of proper supervision, the quality of work was not maintained and schemes had failed.

Mr Shah said many complaints and correspondence had been made in this regard but no notice had been taken of the matter.

He said there were clear instructions of the government that a fair amount under the Khushhal Pakistan Programme should be allocated for water supply and drainage schemes, to be executed through TMAs concerned.

He said he had also submitted a complaint in writing to chief minister's inspection team chairman Nazar Hussain Mahar during his recent visit to Dadu.

STRIKE CALL WITHDRAWN: People's Party Parliamentarians MNA Rafiq Ahmad Jamali here on Saturday withdrew a strike call against DPO Ali Akbar Bhangwar.

DEMO: A large number of residents of the Ahmed Khan Birhamani village held a demonstration outside the district police chief office here on Friday to protest against the Makhdoom Bilawal police.

Led by Aftab Ahmed Birhamani and Haji Khan Mehoon, the protesters also blocked the Dadu-Sehwan road and raised slogans against the police for beating innocent villagers and arresting two of them.

Mr Birhamani told journalists that a police party had entered the houses of Gulsher and Rustam Birhamani on the pretext of a search for criminals.

He said that the police had broken furniture and beaten up the villagers including women as result two minor boys, four women and six villagers had been injured.

He appealed to the Sindh police chief to provide justice to them.

BOOKED: Two traders, Hiranand and Saleem Shaikh, were booked by the police here on Friday for selling spurious packets of a branded Pan Masala .

The police took the action on the complaint of the manager of of a Pan Masala company, Nazir Hussain Jat.