HYDERABAD, Oct 16: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz, Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz and Jeay Sindh Students Federation staged a demonstration outside the press club on Sunday in protest against arrest of JSMM leader Muzaffar Bhutto and others.
The protesters, including women and children, blocked the road for several hours and chanted slogans against the government for implicating nationalist leaders in fake cases.
They alleged that Mr Bhutto was being held incommunicado for the last 12 days.
The wife and brother of Muzaffar Bhutto and JSSF leaders said the intelligence agencies had launched an undeclared operation against activists of the nationalist parties.
They said Muzaffar Bhutto was detained in Karachi about 12 days back but he had not been produced in any court.
They feared that he might have been killed.
The JSSF leaders lashed out at the Shirazi brothers of the Thatta district for victimizing the party leaders.
They appealed to the human rights organizations to raise their voice against disappearance of Muzaffar Bhutto.
A signed message of JSMM chairman Shafi Mohammad Burfat was also read out.
Mr Burfat said the independence of Sindh was the goal of the people of Sindh.
He called upon the UNO, human rights organizations and all democratic countries of the world to take notice of the tyranny unleashed by the state against workers of the nationalist parties.
He demanded that the JSMM leaders immediately be released.
He said if any harm came to Muzaffar Bhutto and Zulfiqar Khaskheli, the whole of Sindh would be engulfed in a conflagration.
He called upon the youth of Sindh, intellectuals, haris and workers to support the nationalist forces in their struggle for the independence of Sindh.
He called upon HRCP chairperson Asma Jehangir to perform her due role in locating Muzaffar Bhutto.
Mr Burfat urged her to meet with imprisoned nationalist leaders Asghar Shah and Sikandar Soomro.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, Mr Basheer Qureshi, in a statement faxed to Dawn on Sunday criticized the Shirazis of Thatta for victimizing the activists of the party.
He said that the Shirazi brothers had taken over the possession of a costly plot by force in Gharo which was property of Mushtaq Khaskheli, the district president of the party.
Mr Qureshi said raids were also being conducted by police for the arrest of party leaders.
He said that another party leader Razzaq Unnar was tortured and arrested from the court premises of Thatta.
He warned the Shirazis that they would have to pay very heavily for victimization of activists of the JSQM and the hapless people of Thatta district.
PROTEST: Activists of the Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party from the Jamshoro district staged a demonstration outside the press club on Sunday in protest against shifting of the Girls’ Higher Secondary School from Kotri to Jamshoro.
Speaking on the occasion, Inayat Almani, Shabbir Magsi and Irshad Panhwar said that under a conspiracy, the Kotri Government Girls Higher Secondary School was being shifted to Jamshoro.
They said the purpose of shifting the school to Jamshoro was to accommodate a former principal of the school.
They said the school was functioning in Kotri for the last 16 years where 1,700 girl students were studying.
They said there was no reason to shift the already established school from Kotri to Jamshoro.
They said that 1,700 girl students would have to suffer great hardships in going to Jamshoro from Kotri.
They warned that if the decision to shift the school to Jamshoro was not rescinded, the political parties and social welfare organizations would launch a protest movement and responsibility for consequences would rest with the authorities.
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