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MIRPURKHAS July 6. Hundreds of residents of Bhansinghabad including women took out rally here on Friday from railway station chowk to local press club to protest against money extortion by armed persons of Bhatta Mafia and excesses of SHO Satellite town. Protesters led by Mushtaque Ahmed and Bahadur Shah, while carrying banners and placards raised slogans against the SHO Satellite town Kanwar Singh and demanded the immediate arresting of involved persons. They marched through main roads and reached at local press club where they staged sit in and blocked the main Hyderabad Mirpurkhas road as result traffic was suspended. On this occasion, talking to media men, Mushtaque Ahmed, Mst Shehnaz, Sakina, Bahadur Shah and others accused that a money extortionist Allahdin was resided in their area who with the help of his henchmen had been disturbed the people of Bhansinghabad for last several months as some days ago, when Mushtaque Ahmed refused to pay money (Bhatta) Allahdin with connivance of SHO Satellite town implicated him and his sons in false criminal cases after which above SHO made violation of rules, entered forcibly in his house and taken away costly house articles and valuables . They alleged that they feeling insecure on the hands of money extortionists as they were being patronized by SHO Satellite town in their areas. They demanded the chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chohadhry, I.G.Sindh, DIG Mirpurkhas and SSP Mirpurkhas to provide them protection, withdraw false cases and replace immediately above SHO Satellite town. They dispersed after two hours while traffic was restored after an hour. 

MIRPURKHAS July 5. District coordinator of Nadra employees union Mirpurkhas Naeem Ahmed, Amir Kaim Khani and Mohammad Arif have strongly condemned the armed attack on the staff including women at Nadra office taluka Kotri by unknown armed persons. In a joint press statement issued here on Thursday, they lamented that innocent staff were busy in their work when unknown armed terrorists attack on the office of Nadra at Kotri and tortured the staff including women staff. They demanded the Sindh chief minister and Governor Sindh to take immediate notice into this matter, ensure immediate arresting of the armed attackers and legal action against them , while they urged the authorities to provide them security in their offices as now they were feeling themselves insecure in present condition.

 

MIRPURKHAS July 5. Three day polio eradication campaign was being launched in district Mirpurkhas by district health department from July 16 to July 18. Arrangements were being made to make successful to this campaign sothat no less than 5 years children might be ignored from polio drops. Dr Ashfaque, senior health officer told the media men that 245381 children under five years would be administered polio drops by health officials and workers during this campaign while teams would also visit door to door for this purpose in the district. He said that total 746 teams have been formed and 567 teams would visit door to door while 101 fixed teams’ setup and 68 transit teams were also made. He said that polio disease will be eliminated from the district with jointly cooperation of masses, officials and government departments. He said that all the institutions including NGOs, and civil society should also play their role to make successful to this campaign.