HYDERABAD, April 1: The Jeay Sindh Students Federation, Sindh University chapter, observed black day at the campus and held a protest demonstration outside the Hyderabad press club here on Monday against the shifting of JSQM leaders, Bashir Khan Qureshi and Dr Niaz Kalani, from Nara jail, Hyderabad, to a Karachi prison.

Speaking at the rally, JSSF leaders, Rehman Joyo, Faqir Nawaz Panhiar, and others said that the JSQM chairman was shifted to Karachi jail to protect the superintendent of Hyderabad Central Jail, Malik Altaf Awan, who was involved in the murder of an under trial prisoner, Mehmood Khoso.

They threatened that they could stage a march from Karachi to Islamabad against the shifting of the JSQM leaders to Karachi jail.

SPSF-SB: The activists of the Sindh Peoples’ Students’ Federation (SB) staged a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Monday against the construction of greater Thal canal and delay in the court proceedings in the murder case of Murtaza Bhutto and his companions.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Saleem Bhatti, Dr Abdul Fatah Rajpar and others demanded that the Thal canal project should be shelved for ever and the killers of Murtaza Bhutto and his companions should be publicly hanged.

They lashed out at police for stopping the buses of the activists of the organization who were on their way to the Hyderabad Press Club to participate in the protest demonstration.