HYDERABAD, Jan 5: Two separate demonstrations were held outside the press club on Friday in protest against inordinate increase in the prices of consumer goods. Speaking at one of the demonstrations, Pakistan Democratic Party leaders Dr Saeed Qureshi, Syed Makhdoom Ahmed Shah, Tehseen Qurban and others criticized the government for failing to control prices of essential goods and tariffs of utilities.

They said that following increase in the tariffs of electricity and gas and prices of ghee, flour and pulses, the price of milk had also been increased.

They said that it had become impossible for common man to make both ends meet.

They said that the people had been deprived of basic facilities and forced to drink contaminated water.

The activists of the Insan Dost Tehrik staged another protest demonstration.

Speaking on the occasion, Naeem Noorani, Arif Kaimkhani, Zaheer Ansari and others criticized the uncalled for increase in the price of milk.

They demanded of the government to take measures to reduce the prices of consumer goods and tariffs of utilities.

ST: A large number of Sunni Tehrik activists staged a protest demonstration outside the press club on Friday against firing on the ST office in Karachi on the second day of Eid.

Speaking on the occasion, Khalid Hussain Attari, Mohammad Hanif Qadri and Abdul Shakoor Bhatti said that not only the Sunni Tehrik office was attacked but the hides of sacrificial animals collected by the workers were also snatched.

They said that the ST was being terrorised for the last four years but the Sindh government had taken no action against the terrorists as Karachi had been handed over to an ethnic organisation.

They demanded that the miscreants involved in the firing incident should be arrested and awarded exemplary punishment.