THATTA: A strike call against the Saturday killing of Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party (STP) leader Hassan Samoon was positively responded in Thatta and Sujawal districts on Tuesday.

Enraged activists blocked the Thatta-Sujawal Highway by barricading K.B Feeder lower bridge.

All commercial centres, bazaars, shops and filling stations remained shut throughout the day. However, no untoward incident took place during the protest.

SUKKUR: STP activists took out a rally and observed a token hunger strike in Jacobabad on Tuesday to protest police failure to arrest the killers of their central leader.

The participants took out the rally from the Taraqqi Pasand House and after marching through different roads, they reached in front of the local press club where a token hunger strike for two hours was observed.

The protesters raised slogans for the arrest of the killers.

Those who spoke at the rally included Ghulam Hussain Khoso, Dil Murad Lashari, Hussain Bukhsh Brohi, Shamsuddin Soomro, Abdul Nabi Magsi, Lala Rasool Bukhsh Pathan, Mohammed Hashim Soomro, Bilawal Dashti and Shahid Lashari.BADIN: Some 50 STP activists observed a four-hour token hunger strike in front of the local press club against the killing of Comrade Samoon.

Speaking to them, STP divisional leader Shah Nawaz Sial and others announced that they would continue their protest till the arrest of the killers.

Strike call for Friday

HYDERABAD: The Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party (STP) on Tuesday gave a Sindh-wide strike call for Friday (Sept 26) against Muttahida Qaumi Move-ment chief Altaf Hussain’s demand for more administrative units in the province.

Acting chairman of the party Jam Fatah Samejo alleged that the MQM had been striving for a ‘Mohajir province’ from day one and formally raised the demand on Feb 9,1994 in Nazimabad. On Nov 16,1995, the then Sindh Assembly speaker belonging to the MQM had sought appointment of an Urdu-speaking person as governor.

Describing the demand as negation of the 1940 resolution that formed the basis of Pakistan’s creation, Mr Samejo told a press conference that the Urdu-speaking community living in the province should also reject the demand.

Altaf Jaskani, Hyder Mallah, Shabbir Magsi, Jam Shaukat Abro, Dr Ahmed Noonari, Gulzar Soomro and STP activists were present.

“Those who demand that Karachi be made a province must remember that the city is as sacred to Sindhis as the Harmain Sharifain to any ordinary Muslim,” he remarked, and said the STP would fight against the idea in every street.

He said it was a conspiracy aimed at triggering a civil war between the two communities.

Published in Dawn, September 24th, 2014