THATTA, Oct 15: The People’s Party Parliamentarians has called for a shutter-down strike in Thatta district on Wednesday to protest against the massive rigging in the election in the district and victimization of PPP activists and other opponents of the Shriazi group.

This was announced by the PPP district president, Dr Wahid Soomro, district secretary Imtiaz Qureshi and others at a press conference here on Tuesday.

They accused the Shirazi brothers of implicating PPP candidates, Arbab Wazir Memon (NA-238) and Shams Memon (PS-86), and 38 activists in nine cases in the Mirpur Bathoro and others police stations.

Speaking on the occasion, Pir Ghulam Rehmani, a candidate from the coastal constituency of Jati (PS-87), said that he had not yet been given results of some 40 polling stations and his 13 polling agents were still missing.

He said that his agents, including a woman, were dragged out of the polling station and thrown at some isolated place with their hands tied behind their backs, and thus his opponents engineered his defeat.

Meanwhile, Ayaz Ali Shah Shirazi, Pakistan Muslim League(Q)’s MNA-elect from NA-237 and MPA-elect from PS-86, has refuted the allegations, terming them baseless and concocted.

Meanwhile, in Thatta, Jheruck, Var Ghulamullah and Jhoke Sharif, six PPP activists were injured as their rivals attacked them and resorted to firing. Those injured included the district chief of the PPP, Abdul Khaliq, and Mohammad Bakhsh.