HYDERABAD, Oct 23: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz staged a demonstration outside the press club on Sunday in protest against detention of Muzaffar Bhutto, a senior office-bearer of the party.

The mother, wife, sisters and brothers of Mr Bhutto said they feared that he might have been killed.

They said that Mr Bhutto was whisked away by police and agencies 18 days ago from the Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Karachi.

The relatives said that they had been holding rallies for over two weeks but there was no response from the government.

The wife of Muzaffar Bhutto said that she had also moved an application in a court for recovery of her husband.

She appealed to the chief justices of the Supreme Court and the Sindh High Court to take action to recover her husband.

She appealed to nationalist leaders, democratic parties and human rights organizations to pressurize authorities to disclose the whereabouts of Mr Bhutto.

STPP: Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi, who is also president of the Sindh chapter of the PONM, has condemned attack on the house of Sardar Attaullah Mengal, the chief of the Balochistan National Party and the central president of the PONM. He termed the attack as an act of terrorism.

Mr Magsi said the accused had not been arrested despite a number of protest demonstrations.

He alleged that the state agencies were hatching conspiracies against the nationalist leaders.

He warned that the PONM would be constrained to launch a protest movement against the government if the accused were not arrested.

ENCROACHMENTS: Residents of the journalists’ colony have expressed concern over encroachments on roads.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, a representative of the colony, Barkat Ali Chohan, said that the residents had approached the encroachers, who claimed that they had been given permission by the authorities concerned.

They said that some influential people had even started raising constructions on the roads.

He said that the roads and streets were becoming narrow due to such encroachments.

Mr Chohan called upon the HDA to demolish the encroachments without delay.