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THATTA, April 28: Over 50 leaders and activists of the Pakistan People’s Party were arrested by the Thatta police on Sunday.
Those arrested included former MNA Babu Ghulam Hussain, PPP, district president, Dr Abdul Wahid Soomro, district general secretary, Syed Iqbal Shah, vice president, Haroon Hulani and press secretary, Imtiaz Qureshi
Earlier, hundreds of the party activists took out a rally here against the presidential referendum.
After marching on the main thoroughfares, the participants reached the Thatta Press Club on the National Highway where Babu Ghulam Hussain, Dr Wahid Soomro, Imtiaz Qureshi and others made speeches against the referendum.
A large number of the activists observed a token hunger strike at a camp, which they had established near the press club.
A heavy police contingent, led by the DSP, headquarters, Shahnawaz, stormed the camp, uprooted it and rounded up over 50 activists and leaders. The police locked them up at the Thatta police station.
No FIR has been lodged against them.
In Mirpur Bathoro also, the PPP activists observed a token hunger strike against the referendum.
Similar strike camps have been set up at a number of taluka headquarters of the district.
Meanwhile, a rally, led by Thatta District Nazim Shafqat Hussain Shah Shirazi, left for Karachi to participate in public meeting to be addressed by President Gen Pervez Musharraf.
24 INJURED: About 24 people were injured when a bus fell into a ditch near Gujjo, some 11 km from here, on Saturday evening.
Reports said that a bus (JA-1506) overturned and fell into the ditch after its tie rod broke into two.
The injured, including some students and teachers, were taken to the Gujjo Rural Health Centre, where the condition of two of them was said to be critical.
