HYDERABAD: Protest against SNP chief’s disappearance
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, Jan 20: Activists of Sindh National Party (SNP) staged a protest demonstration and hunger strike outside the Hyderabad press club on Saturday against the arrest and disappearance of party chairman Agha Shamshad Mughal.
SNP leaders Dr. Amarshi Thakur, Dr. Anwar Hajano and Nadeem Charan said that Mr. Mughal had been missing since a week and nobody had so far come up information on his whereabouts.
Besides, the party leaders had been receiving threats ever since, they said and demanded that Mr. Mughal and other nationalist leaders should either be released or produced in courts.
EYE CAMP: Eight hundred patients have so far received treatment at a free eye camp set up at the LUMHS Eye Hospital organised by the Adult Blind Centre Karachi in collaboration with the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS).
The camp commenced on Jan 18 and would run till Jan 21. By Saturday 800 patients had received treatment for different eye diseases and 280 poor patients had been provided lenses.
Prof. Dr. Azeem Almani and Dr. Ayesha Usman are supervising the operations, which are being conducted by noted surgeon of Ankelseria Hospital Karachi Dr. Zaka Syed Ankelseria, Prof. Shafi Mohammad Jatoi, Dr. Khalid Talpur, Dr. Saleem Afzal Junejo, Dr. Manzoor Qureshi and others.
