UMERKOT: Scores of students along with their parents and teachers staged a protest against the National Testing Service (NTS), accusing it of involvement in leakage of entry test paper for admission to Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences. Some of the protestors threatened self-immolation if justice was not dispensed. Carrying banners and placards they […]
Bheel community stages protest against police
UMERKOT: Scores of people, including women of Bheel community, staged a protest demonstration outside the local press club to protest against the failure of police in arresting accused involved in abduction and rape of Naseeban Bheel. The protesters, carrying banners and placards, were raising slogans against Umerkot Police. They accused the local Pakistan Peoples Party […]
Rally held against forced disappearances
UMERKOT: Sindh progressive committee Umerkot chapter took out a rally against forced disappearances of political and social activists in Sindh, in front of Samaro press club here on Sunday. Rally was led by Damro Mal vice president Sindh Hari Committee and district organizer Sindh Progressive Committee, a joint venture of four parties including Sindh Communist […]
Sarhandi declares Hindu lawmaker RAW agent
UMERKOT: Ayub Jan Sarhandi, a cleric notorious for forced conversion of Hindu girls, held a protest rally on Sunday against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNA Lalchand Malhi, terming him an “agent of RAW” and a “threat to coexistence of area”. The rally was taken out from Gulzar-e- Khalil Samaro to Umerkot. The charged participants were carrying banners […]
Court orders to exhume womans body
UMERKOT: Additional District and Session Judge Umerkot has ordered to form a special medical board and exhume the body of Siyani Oad for postmortem here on Tuesday. Siyani Oad a married woman was found hanged 16 days ago at her in-laws home near Momal Ji Mari of Umerkot. Later Shiv Ram Oad, father of the […]
Umerkot Forts renovation enters last stage
UMERKOT: Restoration work at the Umerkot Fort is in the final stages and its likely to be completed in another 10 days, Daily Timeshas learnt. The restoration project is being undertaken by the Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Department of the Sindh government. The project had been launched by Sindh Culture Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah […]
Umerkot receives first monsoon rain
UMERKOT: Umerkot and its adjoining desert areas have received first monsoon showers which made Tharis happy in connection to gear up to cultivate their agriculture fields here on Thursday. According to the details Thar’s Bhojrajiyo, Kerlo, Kaplore, Khokhrapar, Wasar Bah, Jaloo jo Chonaro have received first moonsoon rains that made the Tharis happy in order […]
Clay slab claims life, three injured
MERKOT: One succumbed to injuries out of four family members including two children who were buried under slab of clay while digging out it from a ditch in Mandhal village near Umerkot here on Friday. According to details, Dileep Oad 30, wife Haliman 29 and two children Tulcho 5, Bharat 8, were digging clay from […]
50% doctors posts vacant in Umerkot
UMERKOT: More than fifty percent of doctors’ posts and the staff nurses of 16-19 grades are lying vacant in government hospitals in District Umerkot. According to the documents available to Daily Times, as many as 141 posts of doctors and staff nurses of 16-19 grades are lying vacant against 276 sanctioned positions in four tehsil […]