LARKANA, Nov 18: A large number of activists of the women’s wing of Pakistan People’s Party brought out a procession in Qambar town on Sunday in protest against emergency, curbs on media and large-scale arrests of political workers and lawyers.
The procession led by Ms Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto, president of the Larkana chapter of PPP, started from the party office.
Carrying placards, flags and banners the procession staged a sit-in at Martyrs Square and later demonstrated outside the local press club.
The protesters rejected the emergency and called for lifting curbs on media and releasing all the political prisoners, lawyers, human rights activists and the members of civil society, who had been arrested during countrywide protests against government actions.
They demanded that the general election should be held under an independent election commission.
FREED: Jail authorities released Babu Sarfraz Jatoi, president of Larkana chapter of PML-N and former general secretary of High Court Bar Association, late on Saturday night.
Mr Jatoi said on Sunday that the jail superintendent invited him to tea at the main gate and then said “you are free now”.
He said: “He (jail superintendent) did not even bother to keep my entry in the outward register kept at the gate,” Mr Jatoi said, adding, that another lawyer Saifullah Jatoi and a Jamaat-i-Islami worker Musaif Jokhio, were also released.
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