JSQM to protest outside SC

Published September 5, 2007

NAWABSHAH, Sept 4: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz will demonstrate outside the Supreme Court Karachi on Thursday against the missing nationalist workers of Sindh and Balochistan, said Chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi while talking to reporters at hunger strike camp outside the press club, on Tuesday.

He said state terrorism was on the rise as hundreds of workers were missing for which the JSQM protested but the government kept mum over the issue.

He said Dr Safdar Sarki, Asif Baladi, Bashir Shah and others were missing since long and their families were wretched.

The JSQM will widen its protest by demonstrating outside Supreme Court Karachi registry on Sept 6, he said and demanded of the CJP to take its notice and direct their release.

The JSQM Chairman announced his support to Pir Amiruddin whose two daughters were allegedly tortured by their husbands. The JSQM activists observed token hunger strike opposite the Nawabshah Press Club for the recovery of missing persons, on Tuesday.

Man killed: An old man died of snake bite in the Nawabshah Medical College Hospital, on Tuesday. Ameer Bux Dahiri 60 was bitten by a snake while working in the farm at Jamal Shah village.

He was brought to the hospital where even, after being administered the ASV he died.

Medical Superintendent Prof Dr Gulshan Ali Memon told reporters the man was suffering from high blood pressure and died of cardiac arrest while being treated.

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