HYDERABAD, Oct 10: Workers of different organisations, including Masood Shah Colony Welfare Association, Tibb-i-Islami Council and Anjuman Aashiqan-i-Madina, staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Friday to protest against the ongoing construction of a seminary in the Cantonment area.

Speaking on the occasion, Hakeem Syed Jamil Ahmed Qadri, Syed Hameed Shah, Dr Hakeem Mohammad Yousuf and others said that the seminary was being constructed by activists of a banned outfit which had created harassment among people of the area.

They said that the banned outfit had also distributed objectionable pamphlets. They demanded of the authorities to immediately stop the construction of the seminary.Meanwhile, Sunni Tehrik activists staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Friday to protest against police failure to arrest the killers of their leaders.

The activists carried banners and placards and raised slogans against the police and the killers.

Speaking on the occasion, ST leaders Mohammad Khalid Qadri, Khalid Hassan Attari, Mohammad Ameen Qadri and others said that dozens of ST leaders and workers had been killed in Nishtar Park and other places in Karachi but not a single culprit had been arrested.

They alleged that even after an end to nine years of dictatorship, excesses against the ST had not been stopped. They said that if the killers were not arrested, consequences would be serious.

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