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Rice millers observe strike
SUKKUR, March 27: Sixty-five rice mills in
Kandhkot, Ghouspur, Karampur, Tangwani and Buxapur
observed strike on the second consecutive day on
Friday against a tax levied by the market
committee on the transportation of rice.
More than 2,000 labourers remained without work
due to the strike. Grain Market president Nand Lal
and Rice Mills Association president Noor Khoso
said officials of the market committee charged
Rs500 per trawler and tractor trolley which was
illegal and unjust.
They said they had no objection if they charged
the tax from the vehicles bringing rice to their
mills. They alleged the market committee officials
charged tax from their vehicles at three different
places. They said if the practice prevailed then
they would continue the strike.
The market committee contractor Baldev Kumar said
the tax was charged from the grain merchants and
rice mill owners according to the schedule issued
by the Sindh government.
RALLY: Hundreds of People's Party Parliamentarians
workers held a protest rally in Thul town on
Friday against the killing of MPA Abdullah Murad
Baloch.
Speaking on the occasion, PPP district president
Dr Fida Mirani condemned the Sindh government and
said the police had failed to arrest the killers
of Mr Baloch.
A resolution passed on the occasion demanded that
the Sindh chief minister should resign. Because,
they said, the government which could not
safeguard the lives and property of the people had
no right to remain in power.
KILLED: A man, Jurio Lund, 60, was beat to death
by four accused in Imam Bux Lund village on
Friday.
The accused Saddam, Zakria, Fakhar and Sana Lund
fled after committing the crime. The motive behind
the incident was said to be a dispute on a piece
of land. The Yaroo Lund police registered a case
against all the four accused.
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