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MIRPURKHAS Oct 31. At least ten passengers were injured when a marriage party bus was turned to turtle near Shahi Water at Hyderabad Mirpurkhas road here on Sunday morning. Report said that a marriage party was on its way that one of the bus of marriage party went out of the control of the driver in speed as result it was turned turtle leaving 10 passengers injured. The injured were rushed to emergency ward of the civil hospital Mirpurkhas where they were provided first aid. The injured were identified as Ramesh, Wahsan, Ropchand, Shremti Bhagwani, Bhagwan, Premchand, Dharamdas, Pretam, Gordas and Shremti Weeran. Seriously injured Bhagwan was referred for Liaqat Medical University hospital Hyderabad due to his serious condition.

MIRPURKHAS Oct 31. President Red chili growers association Mian Mohammad Saleem has expressed deep concern over the delay in releasing the funds for installing the Chili dehydration plant in Kunri town and demanded the federal government to put this project on priority to release immediately its approval funds sothat we could export the chili crop to compete in international markets. Talking to local news man, he said that due to his efforts to raise the issue regarding the installing of Chili dehydration plant at Kunri and other places in the Sindh province, federal government had been approved the project of RS 22 crors to install Chili dehydration plant at the 3 acres land of Sindh government that was lying adjacent of Chili research center at Kunri town and about 6 months back, federal minister Mir Hazaar Khan Bijarani had been lying foundation stone of the project at Kunri , however he lamented that owing to flood condition federal government delayed its releasing of funds and still no work on this project was yet started. This project was prepared by small and medium enterprises development authority SMEDA and it will implement on this project as the government released the funds. He urged the government not to neglect or delay such kind of projects instead of delay other development projects, because of such kind of project is the back bone of the agriculture sector and after installation of such plant our export of chili will compete in international market as our chili export quality is best in the world and its demand was more than but due to a fungus European countries, Japan, USA , England etc were yet avoided to import it from Pakistan. He expressed that recently general manager SMEDA Iqbal Ahmed Qudwai has talked with him on phone and assured him that federal government has taken up this project again and process was being made to release its phase wise funds. He said that India had already been installed various chili dehydration plant to dry the chili to export it in international market. He said that our Dandi cut longi chili is the unique and best export quality that was only produced particularly in lower Sindh but we are yet failed to export it in European countries and other international markets owing to not having the Chili dehydration plant. He further said that we could get more than national exchequer by exporting more than chili crop in international market and this dream will be fulfill when we would install the various chili dehydration plants in lower Sindh at Kunri, Jhuddo, Mirpurkhas, Khipro, Naokot, Digri, etc. He said that our chili growers were not properly aware from cultivation and dry process of the Chili crop and there was need of awareness programme for them sothat in initial stage we could get dry and better conditional crop. He told that during dry process it was placed in open sky in the local chili markets but due to moisture atmosphere, a fungus namely Aflotoxin was created in it that was slow poison. He said that in past European countries , Japan, USA etc were imported the chili crop having till 20 part Per billions PPB that was the international standard of that fungus but now above countries have further decreased its quantity as till 10 PPB while he deplored that in absence of chili dehydration plant, our crop have 50 to 150 PPB as result we were failed to compete in the international market of chili crop. He said that we had tested the chili at Kunri which had 25 to 40 PPB and at Tando Jan Mohammad from 150 to 200 PPB. He said that we are only exporting the chili in Middle east, Srilanka, Canada, Saudi Arabia etc. He urged the agriculture department to arrange the seminars on chili crops for providing more than knowledge to growers about the cultivation of chili, its harvesting process, dry process , keeping stock process etc. He demanded the president Asif Ali Zardari and prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani to immediately release the funds for installing the chili dehydration plant at Kunri town sothat we could be able to export the chili and compete in international market.

 

MIRPURKHAS Oct 31. Quran Khawani and Fateha Khawani were held at Jinnah hall by MQM Mirpurkhas zone here on Sunday in connection of incident of Oct 31^st, 1986. Those attended including zonal incharge Mirpurkhas Azeem Danish, MPA Faheem Ahmed Altafi, office bearers Mohammad Khalid Majeed and workers etc.

 

MIRPURKHAS Oct 31. Despite the suicide bomb explosions and bomb blasting at different places in the country in which innocent persons were killing and injuring, fire crackers were openly being sold in the city that could be cause of any kind of loss of live or property. Report said that in the patronization of local police, fire crackers were being sold from push carts, venders and shops while rush of children and youths were seen at the sale point. SHO town Hussain Maher told the newsmen that DCO Mirpurkhas had given permission for selling the fire crackers in the city and we could not stop its sale and asked to approach to DCO in this regard. DCO Mirpurkhas Ghulam Hussain Memon denied of giving such kind of permission and said that he will take measures to stop its sale that could be very dangerous for human life.