HYDERABAD, Oct 14: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association has threatened to close down all colleges in Sindh if the college teachers, who were arrested in Karachi, were not released immediately.

The announcement was made by Prof Liaquat Aziz Solangi, the founder of the SPLA while speaking at a rally outside the press club on Thursday. A large number of college teachers staged a protest demonstration outside the press club against the arrest of college teachers in Karachi.

Mr Solangi said the colleges in Sindh would remain closed for an indefinite period and all curricular and co-curricular activities would remain suspended. He condemned the arrest of over 50 college teachers in Karachi.

He demanded that the Sindh government should release the college teachers and issue a notification without delay about the already accepted demands of the teachers including promotions, separation of seniority list of the teachers of government and nationalized cadre, upgradation of 33 per cent posts of librarians and directors and end to nationalization of educational institutions.

JSQM: A large number of activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz staged a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Thursday against the award of sentence to JSQM leaders Fazal Behan and Babu Mirani and murderers of Munir Shahani and Gul Mohammad Bhatti.

They raised slogans against the government and in favour of 'Sindhu Desh'. Speaking on the occasion, Mir Murtaza Mughal, Shazad Memon and Aslam Sindhi said the government had launched an operation against leaders of the JSQM with a view to sabotaging their protest movement against the anti-Sindh projects. They demanded that Fazal Behan and Babu Mirani should be released forthwith and false cases against them should be withdrawn.