HYDERABAD, Nov 1: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) has warned the government that if the trial of JSQM chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi and vice chairman Dr Niaz Kalani was held inside jail, the party will launch a protest movement throughout the province.

In a joint statement issued here on Thursday, JSQM acting chairman Shafi Karnani, general secretary Shabbir Jamali and deputy general secretary Mohammad Rahimoon alleged that the rulers were creating hurdles in the defence of the imprisoned JSQM leaders who had been arrested for protesting against the acute shortage of water and influx of Afghan nationals into Sindh.

They said that they were not being produced in the court on the pretext of security and a conspiracy was afoot to hold their trial inside jail.

They said that this was being done to keep JSQM leaders in jail without holding their trial.

They warned that the party will strongly protest if the trial of its leaders was held within the four walls of the central jail of Hyderabad.

They have also urged the people of Sindh to stop the influx of Afghan nationals into Sindh and claimed that no less than three million Afghan nationals were already living in the Sindh province.

They said that on the pretext of selling cloth in the interior of Sindh, they were in fact engaged in the dirty business of arms and narcotics.

They said that while the poor Sindhis were living in shanty houses, the Afghan intruders had become the owners of pucca houses, coaches, tractors and buses.

Meanwhile, the deputy general secretary of the party and chairman of Shah Murad Sugar Mills workers struggle committee, Mohammad Rahimoon has convened a meeting of the committee and the mill employees at Mirpur Bathoro on Nov 4.

He said that the mill owners will either have to accept the demands of workers or surrender the mill to workers.