In this file photo, SUP president Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah speaks to lawyers in the High Court Bar Association office in Hyderabad. Dawn
DADU: A heavy contingent of police led by a DSP and two SHOs surrounded house of Sindh United Party chairman Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah in Jamshoro town early on Sunday morning but returned without arresting him after learning he had obtained bail.
The police parties led by Kotri DSP Ghulam Shabbir Sarki and SHOs of Kotri and Jamshoro pitched tents outside four corners of Shah’s house at 6.00am and briefly stopped him when he wanted to go out.
Only a few districts in Sindh can match Jamshoro’s diversity. The existence of higher seats of learning, a vast industrial area, massive tourism potential, Asia’s biggest freshwater lake Manchhar, reserves of natural resources of gas and oil (four in number), the rain-fed Darawat dam, tobacco cultivation and large hilly tracks make it distinctive in Sindh. And above all shines the ethereal beauty of the shrine of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Jamshoro’s Sehwan taluka, which attracts people from across Pakistan, nay the subcontinent.
One could write a painful saga about the Manchhar lake in Jamshoro. It attains significant political importance when it comes to the debate on interprovincial irrigation water distribution due to the Kotri barrage, the last controlling point over river Indus. The barrage is considered a benchmark for judicious water distribution among provinces under the 1991 accord.
Ehsaas beneficiaries left disgruntled
HYDERABAD:
Complaints of closed centres, unlawful deductions and even the issuance of counterfeit currency have surfaced as cash grants continue to be disbursed by the Ehsaas Programme around Sindh. Subsequently, as beneficiaries struggle to receive the stipends, protests have become a near-daily occurrence.
Talking to the media at a protest in Khairpur district, Zulekha Khatoon complained that agents were deducted Rs1,500 to Rs2,000 from each Rs12,000 grant. We travel a long distance from our town and line up all day to receive the grant, but we don t get the full amount, chimed in Mai Noorani, demanding action against the agents.