Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation’s (PTDC) former tourism officer Faiz Muhammad Bughio on Sunday criticised officers of the Fatehpur police station for allegedly not taking any action to recover his ancestral home from influential land grabbers in Karani village near Mohenjo Daro. Reportedly, he addressed a press conference at the Mohenjo Daro press club and said that armed men including Amir Bux alias Kuraro Bughio, Asif Ali Bughio and his father Taj Muhammad Bughio had forcibly occupied his ancestral home and chopped off about 50-year-old costly Neem trees. He further said that they had sold wood of trees but police did not stop them despite of his several complaints. He claimed that Larkana’s deputy inspector general of police had ordered officers of the Fatehpur police station to look into his complaints; however they inspected the dilapidated situation of his home, and did nothing. “Instead, they had lunch with the accused,” he said, adding that even a local tribal jirga, backed by Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Hizbullah Bughio, had also decided in his favour. Moreover, he alleged that the accused land grabbers had committed several street crimes and sold contraband drugs as they possessed political influence and old contacts with police officials. He pleaded with the concerned authorities to take notice of the issue and order a stern action against the accused land grabbers. His wife has been suffering from paralysis and cannot move without support. STP denounces constructions of dams on Indus River, issuance of CNICs to aliens The Sindh Taraqi-pasand Party (STP) on Sunday carried out a massive demonstration against the proposed constructions of the Kalabagh and Diamer-Bhasha dams on the Indus River and issuance of Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) to illegal immigrants from Burma, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and other countries. Reportedly, STP’s activists including Allah Warayo Umrani, Sadiq Lashari, Comrade Qadir Brohi, Mansoor Soomro, Shams Panhwar, Wajid Sangi, Tariq Jatoi, Asghar Noonari and others gathered at Jinnah Bagh roundabout and chanted full-throat slogans against the federal government’s policies. They asserted that their party would not allow constructions of the dams on the Indus River as it would result in worse form of water scarcity in Sindh. They said that Sindh has already been suffering from acute shortage of water and construction of dams would “guarantee” its infertility. “People of Sindh will resist such initiatives till the last drop of their blood,” he said, adding that the province has insufficient resources to fulfill the basic needs of illegal immigrants and aliens. Meanwhile, they demanded an immediate expulsion of all illegal foreigners including Afghans, Burmese and Bengalis or otherwise, they warned that they would spread their movement across the province. Published in Daily Times, October 15th 2018.