JACOBABAD, Nov 29: Leaders and activists of the Jacobabad chapter of the Pakistan People’s Party held a rally here on Thursday in protest against the killing of a villager Chakar Jakhrani and injuries to another Mohammad Nawaz Jakhrani in a police raid on their village.

The protesters led by PPP leaders ex-MNA Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani, Abdul Sattar Brohi, Mumtaz Hussain Jakhrani, Shafqat Hussain Jakhrani, Farooq Jakhrani, Raja Abdul Raheem Khoso and Noor Ahmed Jakhrani staged a sit-in with Chakar’s dead body they had carried to the press club.

Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani said that a heavy contingent of police raided his village Bachal Garhi and killed Chakar and injured Nawaz.

SHO of Mouladad police station, Asad Nabi Kitchi, who headed the raid, denied allegations of target-killing and said that they came to know two hours after the ‘encounter’ about the villagers’ killing.

He claimed that the villagers opened fire on police vans triggering an exchange of fire, which lasted for an hour. Police conducted the raid against the criminals who were involved in killing SHO of Rajanpur Mohammad Ismail Leghari a month ago at Jacobabad bypass.