Large number of the nationalist party leaders joined a sit-in in favour of Bhawlani Jokhio community men protest, who have been subjected implicating in fake cases and threatening to vacant their ancestral village located from centuries in Mal Mari area, here Outside Thatta press Club on Sunday.
The sit in was led by Juman Bhawlani Jokhio against police and influential men, was joined by several nationalists party leaders including advocate Munwar Bhutto, Yasir Jakhro, Shabir Bhatti of Qoami Awami Tahreek QAT, Syed Jalal Shah of Sindh Tarqi Pasand STP, Haidar Shoro of Laar Awami Forum LAF. Jabbar Banbhro of Porihiyat Mozahimat Tahreek PMT, Asif Jokhio of Sindhi Shagird Tahreek SST,Shakeel Khaskhali of Sindhi Nojwan Tahreek SNT.
The protesters were carrying banners and placards in their demands and chanted slogans against police and influential men and later staged sit in which caused a huge traffic suspension for one and half hour.
They said influential men on the one side have modified and tempered lands records with convenience of revenue officers and on the other hand have turned the lands as hell for local people who mostly remain out of homes because of fear of arrest. They demanded of higher authorities to cancel registered FIRs and release their arrested men. Rs12b uplift projects for Abbottabad
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani on Sunday said that developmental projects worth 12 billion rupees for Abbottabad city including shifting of Salhad dumping ground, uplifting of the city, installation of garbage treatment plant under City Infrastructure programme would be started soon.
He said this while talking to media after chairing a meeting regarding the developmental schemes at deputy commissioner office here. The KP Assembly speaker further said that the other projects were shifting of General Bus Stand, Fruit and Vegetable Market and construction of a gymnasium at the place of the bus stand. Ghani said that we are going to end the tube well system from Abbottabad city and would introduce gravity flow water supply schemes with a cost of 70 million rupees, we would also shift dumping ground from Salhad which was a demand of the local people.—APP
