HYDERABAD, May 3: The Shabab-i-Milli Pakistan has criticized ministers and high government functionaries for living a luxurious lives and importing bullet-proof imousines at public expense while people are forced to commit suicides due to unemployment, poverty and hunger.

Speaking at a news conference at the local press club on Monday, the central president of the organisation, Syed Shahid Pervez, vice-president Syed Salahuddin, provincial president Khair Muhammad Tunio and others said that the root cause of all evils was unemployment as a result of which, youths were committing theft, robberies and dacoities and carrying weapons in their hands.

They said that thousands of youths had become drug addicts due to unemployment.

They urged the government to approve the unemployment bill drafted by the Shabab-e-Milli before the new budget to provide some relief to the unemployed millions.

They alleged that throughout Sindh, employment was being given to the favourites of the powers that be.

They said that the unemployment bill drafted by Shabab-e-Milli would be approved from the people through a referendum and said that their organisation would launch a campaign throughout the country against unemployment.

Unfolding the unemployment bill, the Shabab-e-Milli leaders demanded that the middle pass unemployed youth should be paid a subsistence allowance of Rs2,000 per month, matriculates Rs2,500, inter pass Rs3,000, graduates Rs3,500 and postgraduates Rs.4,000 per month.

They said that uneducated workers should be paid monthly subsistence allowance of Rs1,000 to Rs2,000.

They further demanded that qualified technical persons should be given interest free loans ranging between Rs100,000 to Rs1,000,000 to rehabilitate them in their respective professions.

They further demanded that the temporary employees working in government and semi-government organisations should be confirmed in service.

HUNGER STRIKE: A large number of PPP activists led by former MPA, Mr.Mohammad Usman Kennedy, staged a demonstration and hunger strike outside the local press club here on Tuesday.

They were protesting against the continued imprisonment of party MPA from Nawabshah, Ghulam Qadir Chandio and thousands of others who had gone to Lahore to welcome their leader, Asif Ali Zardari.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Kennedy said that Choudhry brothers had arrested 45000 party activists in Punjab and added that the arrest of Chandio was the worst example of fascism.