May 17, 2007	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 29, 1428

KHAIRPUR, May 16: The taluka president of the youth wing of the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) was arrested late on Tuesday night on charges of blocking road and burning tyres during Monday's strike.

Police is reported to have raided the house of taluka president of People’s Youth Wing Mohammad Bux Mughal in Wapda Colony and arrested him. He was booked in an FIR filed at B-section police station.

Police produced Mr Mughal in the anti-terrorist court on Wednesday and requested the judge that he be remanded in police custody but the court send him to jail custody after the counsel of the accused, Liaquat Shar, told the court that police had subjected Mr Mughal to torture after arrest.

Two other party activists who were arrested earlier, Mehboob Hussain Shah and Fayaz Hussain Janwari, were remanded in police custody for three days.

PPP MPA Nawab Wassan and a number of party workers met with their fellow workers locked up at the A and B-section police stations.

MEETING: A large number of PPP office-bearers, members of ladies wing and People's Lawyers Forum and workers offered fateha for the party activists who were killed in Karachi on May 12 at a meeting held at Jilani House on Wednesday.

Party leaders Syed Amjad Shah Jilani, Liaquat Shar and Mohammad Saleh Ansari declared the dead workers as martyrs who laid down their lives for the supremacy of judiciary and Constitution.

They said that the armed workers of an ethnic organisation opened fire on the caravans of lawyers and PPP workers coming from interior Sindh to welcome the Chief Justice of Pakistan.