KARACHI, June 23: President of the Sindh chapter of the Pakistan People’s Party Syed Qaim Ali Shah has slammed demolition of PPP supporters’ houses on Friday in Kaloi by several contingents of police, alleging that “criminal elements of the Arbab Group accompanied the contingents.”

Syed Qaim Ali Shah, criticising the chief minister for his alleged involvement, appealed to the Supreme Court to take immediate notice of the situation and order a halt to “the political victimisation of Dr Arbab Rahim’s opponents, who are being deprived of their houses and livelihood.”

A PPP leader, Mir Mohammad Khan Lund, whose house was among those demolished, said that over two dozen houses of PPP supporters in the small village had been bulldozed and the occupants had been terrorised on political grounds.

He claimed that about a dozen party workers were injured while resisting the demolition of their houses carried out by a squad comprising several police mobiles, private vehicles and armed guards.