October 04, 2007	Thursday	Ramazan 21, 1428

THATTA, Oct 3: A case has been registered against PPP leader Masood Mustafa Shah and four office-bearers of the party by the Sujawal police on the charge of kidnapping Imran Mandhro, an employee of the Sujawal taluka council, and detaining and manhandling him.

According to the complainant, he was kidnapped on gunpoint by SPSF leader Mohsin Sindhi, People’s Party Parliamentarians office-bearers Faiz Mohammad Bhatti and Ramzan Baghal and activist Guloo Gormani in a car and held hostage on the premises of the Laar Sugar Mills where Mr Shah was already present.

The kidnappers, after manhandling him during for-hour detention, let him go on his assurance that he would not tell anybody about the incident, Mr Mandhro said.

Later, he led a protest procession comprising his colleagues. They staged a sit-in on Thatta-Sujawal road and blocked it for two hours till the registration of the FIR.

When contacted, Mr Shah said that the politically motivated FIR was based on malafide intentions. He said that their rivals, the Shirazis, had made mountain out of a mole. He said that some enraged PPP activists had scuffled with Mandhro, who was close to the Shirazis, for erasing pro-PPP slogans from a wall in Sujawal.

Mr Shah, who is a candidate for the PPP ticket for PS-86 (Sujawal-Mirpur Bathoro), said that he was not present in the town at the time of the incident.