HYDERABAD, Aug 29: The DIG, prisons, Sindh, Nawaz Hussain, here on Thursday categorically denied that any of the convicts of Daniel Pearl case had gone on hunger strike.

He was contacted on telephone by Dawn to know whether reports of hunger strike by the convicts were correct.

Aslam Sheikh, the brother of Sheikh Adil, had held a news conference in Karachi on Wednesday, informing that all the four convicts would go on hunger strike from Thursday to protest their detention and conviction, given the fact that real culprits were not being shown arrested.

He had claimed that Attaur Rehman alias Naeem Bukhari and other accused had been arrested by the police and they had confessed the crime but they were not challaned in the Daniel Pearl case.

The DIG said the convicts took food on Thursday and Syed Abdul Rauf, the father of Fahad Naseem, had a meeting with his son as well.

He said the condition of Syed Salman Saqib was also normal.

It may be pointed out here that the four convicts have moved the Sindh home department, seeking their transfer to Karachi jail from Hyderabad on the ground that their families faced inconvenience in coming to Hyderabad.

They were brought to the Hyderabad central jail on May 2 after the venue of the trial was shifted from Karachi.

They were convicted on July 15 by ATC Judge Syed Ali Ashraf Shah in the case, sentencing Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death and Sheikh Adil, Fahad Naseem and Salman Saqib to life imprisonment.

Body found: The GOR police found the body of 12-year-old Ansar, son of Nisar Ahmad, near the Dargah of Umeed Bharay Baba following a telephone message by some unidentified caller.

The relatives identified the body but did not press for the the post mortem of the boy.

Meanwhile, Aziz Ali Khoso was killed in Jhando Khoso near Tando Jam on Thursday.