THATTA, Nov 22: The People's Party Parliamentarians took out a procession in Sujawal here on Monday to express solidarity with fishermen of Badin and protest against political victimization , police atrocities and registration of false cases against party workers.

Wearing black arm bands and carrying party flags, banners and placards, hundreds of PPP activists marched through main thoroughfares of the town and later converged at the Park Chowk where they staged a sit-in.

Speaking on the occasion, district PPP president Syed Masood Mustafa Shah, former MNA Babu Ghulam Hussain, Imtiaz Qureshi and others criticized law-enforcement agencies' personnel for depriving fishermen of Badin of their rights.

They said fishermen of tail-end districts of Thatta and Badin had been facing starvation for a couple of years due to non-release of sweet water downstream Kotri.

They said the judiciary should take a suo motu notice of victimization of fishermen. The PPP leaders condemned registration of what they called false water theft cases against Khan Union Council party president Aslam Khushik and his three porters and police raids in their village.

They deplored the rise in crime ratio in the Thatta district. Meanwhile, the news of granting bail to Asif Ali Zardari by the Supreme Court turned the occasion into a festivity. The crowd shouted slogans of "Abb Raj Karegi Benazir", Wazir-i-Azam Benazir".

AT: Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo has claimed that the administrative system under nazims is against the very essence of the Constitution. He was talking to journalists at a hunger strike camp set up by party activists outside the press club here on Monday to protest against police atrocities against the Baetal community.

Mr Palijo further claimed that nazim had no powers to issue directives to police. He also criticized a coalition party of the government for allegedly issuing threats to Abdul Aziz Sattar Edhi.