02 January 2005	Sunday	20 Ziqa'ad 1425

LARKANA, Jan 1: IG Sindh Syed Kamala Shah has transferred investigation into the Qambar firing case to DPO Dadu Jawed Odho whereas residents of Qambar have given a strike call for Monday in protest against delay in arrest of police officials responsible for killing four protesters.

Sources in police department told this correspondent that inspector Anwar Ali Gopang, the TPO Mehmoodabad (Shikarpur), had been included in the investigation team.

According to sources, the IG, in his order of reconstituting the investigation team, had urged the new team to ensure impartial investigation and immediately submit the findings.

Earlier the RPO Sukkur had transferred the case to the SP (investigation) Khairpur Abdul Ahad Sangri who visited Qambar town and the place of the incident on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the Qambar Citizens' Action Committee has called for a complete strike on Monday in protest against delay in arrest of the killers of the protesters and to put pressure on the government to restore the district status of Qambar.

On the other hand, four MNAs from Larkana have submitted an application for presenting an adjournment motion in the National Assembly to discuss the Qambar incident.

This was said by MNAs Khalid Iqbal Memon and Anwar Bhutto while talking to relatives of the deceased in Qambar on Saturday. They had reached there to offer condolence with the relatives of the deceased.

The dismissed district nazim and naib nazim of Larkana, Khursheed Ahmed Junejo and Nazir Ahmed Bughio, MPA Ghulam Mujaddid Isran and other leaders of the People's Party Parliamentarians accompanied the MNAs.

Talking to journalists, the MNAs accused the Sindh government of mishandling the situation and said that firing on the peaceful protesters was unjustified.

The PPP delegation also visited the hunger-striker camp in Qambar.