HYDERABAD, Nov 15: About two-dozen activists of PPP (SB) staged a token hunger strike outside the Hyderabad Press Club here on Thursday against the alleged deal between the government and the PPP for the release of Asif Ali Zardari.

Talking to newsmen Shaheed Bhutto group leaders, Mehboob Siyal, Pervez Baloch and Shahabuddin Shaikh, said that Asif Ali Zardari was the main accused in the murder of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and his companions.

They said that if the government through a secret deal started releasing the murderers of political leaders, the people will lose faith in the judiciary and added that no one would accept the secret deal in respect of Asif Zardari.

BODY FORMED: A 13-member Social Harmony Council of Hyderabad was constituted here on Thursday at a meeting of the citizens and social activists held at the office of National Commission for Justice and Peace.

The main objectives of the council are to launch a united struggle for creating harmony among the people of all sects and religions and striving for equal rights for all the citizens of Pakistan irrespective of religion, language, caste, colour and creed.

The council will also struggle for the socio-economic uplift of downtrodden masses and under the privileged people and create conscientiousness among them about their social and economic rights.

The meeting appointed a 13-member “social harmony council” in furtherance of these objectives.

They included Brother Philip Hira, Ahuja S. Lal, Professor S. M. Sayeed, James Fazal, Ashok Kumar Chawla, James Francis, Rev Daniel Fias and others.

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