JACOBABAD, Jan 22: Sacked ASI Abdul Jabbar Soomro on Thursday observed a token hunger strike in front of the press club demanding his reinstatement.

He told reporters that he was appointed an ASI in 2002 but four months back DPO Irfan Baloch terminated his services. He said, his father Gul Hassan Soomro was DSP Larkana and during a routine patrol at Qambar road his father was killed in an encounter with robbers.

Later, the government appointed him as an ASI on deceased quota. He complained that his mother Anwar Khatoon some time back went to DPO office Larkana to receive pension of his father and police insurance but the staff misbehaved with her.

Then she filed an application at services tribunal Hyderabad complaining that DPO Larkana had refused to issue her funds of his deceased husband. In retaliation, DPO Irfan Baloch terminated his services without any reason.

He said that he came here on foot from the tomb of Benazir Bhutto and would go to Kashmore and meet higher authorities and later would go to the tomb of Benazir Bhutto and planned to commit self-immolation.

When contacted, City SPO Anwar Ali Lakho said that due to negligence in duty, ASI Jabbar Soomro and other police personnel were sacked by DPO Irfan Baloch as criminals had escaped from jail when Abdul Jabbar was on duty.