LARKANA, Dec 28: The Qambar Citizens' Action Committee has threatened to observe a complete strike on Dec 30 if killers of four people in Qambar, nominated in the FIR, are not arrested in two days.

Speaking at a press conference in Qambar on Tuesday, committee leaders Nazeer Ahmad Tunio, Bhao Dur Mohammad Buriro and others demanded that the killers should be arrested and the district status of Qambar should be restored.

They regretted that no policemen had been arrested in the case despite registration of an FIR against them. Business activities resumed in the town after four days of protests on Tuesday but the situation remained tense.

The action committee, teachers and activists of the People's Party Parliamentarians took out separate processions, condemning the killing of the people and use of force by police.

Police from the town have almost been withdrawn and the new SHO of the Qambar police station, Ghulam Abbas Chandio, has reportedly been seen in the town in plain clothes.

Later, the protesting groups observed separate hunger strikes. Qambar Taluka Nazim Sardar Khan Chandio joined the action committee's hunger strike camp. Meanwhile, the inquiry committee set up by the Sindh IGP on Tuesday completed recording statements of 300 policemen, including TPOs of Qambar, Saddar Larkana, Mirokhan and Dokri and 15 SHOs.

DISTRICT COUNCIL: The district administration on Tuesday did not allow members of the Larkana District Council to hold its scheduled meeting. Some 28 members assembled outside the council hall, which had been sealed and a heavy contingent of police had been deployed there.

The members regretted that the council was intact but they were not being allowed to hold the scheduled meeting. A councillor told this correspondent that the district coordination officer had told the members that they could hold the meeting only if he was allowed to preside over it but the members had refused.