June 24, 2007	Sunday	Jamadi-us-Sani 08, 1428

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, June 23: More than 200 activists of People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) and members of People’s Lawyers Forum (PLF) staged a rally on Saturday and observed a sit-in outside the local press club in protest against killing of innocent people in Karachi on May 12.

PPP leaders who led the rally, said that police and law enforcing agencies did not take long if they were to arrest innocent people, but the culprits of Karachi carnage were still at large.

Our Dadu correspondent adds: Activists of PPP staged a rally on a call given by the Alliance for the Restoration Democracy (ARD) on Saturday in protest against May 12 killings in Karachi.

They marched on different roads and streets of the city before staging a demonstration outside the local press club.

PPP leaders held the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Sindh government responsible for the killings.

Our Hyderabad bureau adds: A large number of Awami Tehrik activists on Saturday staged a procession, which started from Hotel City Gate and terminated at the press club after marching on the Hirabad, Civil Hospital, Market, Tilak Incline and Station roads, to mark the Chehlum (fortieth day) of May 12 killings in Karachi.

AT leader Ayaz Latif Palijo said that ‘the terrorists’ had held political parties, people and media hostages in Sindh since 1988 and accused the government of arming them on May 12 to massacre innocent people.

Meanwhile, activists of PPP and PML-N also staged a demonstration outside the press club against May 12 killings in Karachi.

MPA Zahid Ali Bhurgri and other local leaders directly accused the MQM of killing innocent people and said that the government was supporting the ‘terrorists’. The MQM should be banned, they demanded.

Our Mirpurkhas correspondent adds: A large number of activists of the component parties of ARD staged a rally on Saturday in protest against May 12 killings in Karachi.

The protesters led by Haji Noor Hassan Chandio, Malik Yaseen Ghori and Ali Akbar Panhwar regretted that Sindh government had failed to take legal action against the terrorists involved in killing innocent people on May 12.

They alleged that the government was deliberately avoiding action against the killers and urged the authorities concerned to ensure arrest of the culprits.