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HYDERABAD, Feb 23: Awami Tehrik activists observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Monday to protest against Kalabagh dam and Thal canal projects and alleged torture of two Sindhi Shagird Tehrik activists in the Nara jail.
Talking to journalists, an AT leader, Vishnu Mal, said that the construction of water projects were aimed at economic murder of 40 million people of Sindh. He alleged that SST leaders, Shakeel Shaikh and Shahid Shaikh, were arrested in false cases by the Badin police and being subjected to inhuman atrocities in the Nara jail.
He demanded that the student leaders should be provided facilities according to the jail manual. Meanwhile, the Nara Special Prison superintendent said in a statement that Awami Tehrik members were pressuring the jail administration to allow special meeting and B-class facilities to Shakeel and Shahid who were "C" class prisoners.
CPP: The Communist Party of Pakistan has opposed the idea of giving provincial status to divisions, saying the government floated the idea to stem the tide of protests. In a statement here on Sunday, the secretary-general of the party, Comrade Imdad Qazi, termed the formula an attack on the federating units.
He said the army rulers under the orders of US President Bush were on the one hand destroying the country's economy and on the other raising new issues to stem the tide of people's protest.
