KHAIRPUR, July 26: Sindh United Party President Syed Jalal Mahmood Shah has said he has secured the rights of Sindh and Sindhi people in the charter signed recently with PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif. Addressing a meeting of party workers in Luqman town on Wednesday evening, Mr Shah said feudal lords had always come to power by playing power politics and ensured that their children held high positions in government or were elected to assemblies but none of them showed a genuine concern for the poor.

He said Mr Sharif himself had come to them and he understood the problems of Sindh and Sindhi people which were clearly spelt out in the agreement.

He said the PPP had never taken a clear stand on issues of Sindh and Sindhi people and always bargained its popular mandate for petty interests without ever doing anything to give people their rights. He said his party was struggling against feudal culture and it would protect the rights of Sindhi people.

Later, Mr Shah visited a hunger strikers’ camp set up by the Sindh Hari Committee at Phool Bagh and met the committee president Comrade Ghulam Rasool Sehto who has been on hunger strike since May 27.

KIDNAPPED: Three Hindu traders of Thull who had been kidnapped from the National Highway on July 11 were recovered by Khairpur police after an encounter with bandits.

Sagheer Hussain Mugheri, ASP of Khairpur city, told journalists on Thursday that police successfully got hostages Ramesh Lal, Hari Lal and Ashok Kumar released after an encounter with kidnappers on Wednesday in the kutcha area of Jaggan in Shikarpur district. Police claimed arresting five kidnappers who, they said, were being interrogated.