Attack on PPP office slated

Published February 10, 2007

HYDERABAD, Feb 9: Activists of People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) staged a demonstration on Friday outside the press club against the attack on party's office in Liaquat Colony, which they charged was made by workers of an ethnic organisation.

MPA Zahid Bhurgri, Ms Sanam Talpur, Fayaz Shah and Jeando Soomro who led the demonstration alleged that the activists of an ethnic organisation including Naseer Mota and Zafar attacked party’s office last night and harassed workers.

They said that the people who had recently joined the party were also issued threats. Area police had refused to register an FIR against the accused, they said and demanded that an FIR should be registered against the attackers.

Meanwhile, different organisations held protest demonstrations outside the press club against ban on students organisations, bonded labour, extortion by police and kidnapping and murder of Greesh Kumar.

Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) staged a protest demonstration and sit-in against continued ban on students’ organisations. Nazim IJT colleges zone Ahmed Mazhar said that students had been left out of mainstream for last 22 years by an unjustifiable ban on their unions.

They demanded that the ban should be lifted and union elections should be held without further delay.

A number of scheduled caste peasants with their women and children who claimed they had escaped from a private jail of a landlord in Sanghar staged a protest demonstration against the wadera.

Talking to journalists Soomar Bheel, Nanji Bheel, Khemo and Bachal Oad alleged that the wadera kept them in bondage and forced them to work on his land without any compensation.

The peasants had been working on his land for last two years, they said.

They said that they had escaped from the jail a couple of days ago and were living in the liberated haris’ camp in Sikandarabad, Kotri.

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