QUETTA, Oct 25: A large number of journalists as well as the activists of the Aurat Foundation and the Citizen Action Committees of many cities observed a three-hour token hunger strike here on Friday to protest the killing of Shahid Soomro, the correspondent of daily Kawish in Kandhkot.

Coming from Larkana, Jacobabad, Gwadar, Kachhi and Mastung as well as Quetta, they sat to register their protest in a camp established in front of the Quetta Press Club.

They condemned the murder of Mr Soomro and regretted that the killers had not been arrested so far.

They demanded of the government to ensure a check on attacks on journalists, and release Robin Pira Dita of Idara-i-Amn-o-Insaf.

Many political leaders visited the hunger strikers, including MPA-elect Jan Mohammad Buledi, Dr Ishaq Baloch of the Balochistan National Movement, and Khair Jan Baloch, the district Nazim of Awaran.

Meanwhile, the president of the Balochistan Union of Journalist, Razaur Rehman and president of the Quetta Press Club, Ikram Ahmed, in separate statements, denounced the killing of Mr Samroo and described it as the murder of humanity.