Strike for the kidnapped

Published August 10, 2007

DERA GHAZI KHAN, Aug 9: Seraikistan Qaumi Ittehad (SQI) organised a hunger strike camp in Kot Mithan Sharif, some 130 kilometres from here, demanding that the police recover 18 people who were kidnapped six days when they were travelling by a boat from Rahim Yar Khan to Rajanpur.

SQI chief Khawja Ghulam Farid Koreeja and his party workers demanded that the police recover those kidnapped within 48 hours otherwise they would block the Indus Highway.

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