MMA condemns bomb blast

Published March 26, 2005

SHIKARPUR, March 25: District leaders of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal have condemned a bomb blast in Fatehpur Rakhiyal Shah area of Balochistan in which innocent people were killed and expressed sympathy with bereaved families. The MMA leaders in a resolution adopted at the party’s district body meeting on Friday also condemned the bomb blast at the Osta Mohammad Amroti mosque. They demanded that federal and provincial governments should pay compensation to victim families and financial assistance to injured people. The leaders also demanded arrests of culprits involved in the blasts. District MMA president Nisar Ahmad Memon presided over the meeting.

SUICIDE: Feroze Khan Baloch, 35, committed suicide over some domestic issue by shooting himself with a pistol in his house in the Mirza Bund village, Garhi Yasin, on Friday. The Gaheja police registered a case.

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