Killings deplored

Published September 27, 2002

JACOBABAD, Sept 26: The PPP candidate for NA-208, Mir Aijaz Jakhrani, has condemned the killing of NGO activists in Karachi and demanded the government for arresting the culprits as soon as possible.

While talking to newsmen at the press club on Thursday, Mr Jakhrani said that in 1986 during attacks on temples in Jacobabad, the Jakhranis had been deployed at the temples and houses of Hindus.

He recalled that the Jakhranis and Hindus had an old relationship and they had decided to support him.

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