January 29, 2008	Tuesday	Muharram 19, 1429

LARKANA, Jan 28: The Sujawal Juneojo police on Monday booked 30 activists of the Pakistan People’s Party on charges of rioting, blocking roads and setting tyres on fire.

Seven of the accused, Talib Hussain Solangi, Nazeer Bhutto, Mir Muhammed Bhutto, Shaman Bhutto, Mukhtiar Bhutto, Abdullah Bhutto and Abdul Hameed Bhutto, had been nominated in the FIR while the others were labelled as ‘unidentified’.

The investigation police is hunting PPP workers nominated in the FIR but no arrest had so far been reported.

Dr Ayaz Tunio, general secretary of the PPP Qambar-Shahdadkot district, said that instead of solving the problem, the SHO of the Sujawal Junejo police station, Mozzamil Soomro, had registered a case which had created a volatile situation in the area.

He clarified that a few PPP had reacted angrily over the tearing up of a poster of Benazir Bhutto by taking out a procession in Arzi Bhutto town, adding that they had pelted stones on the office of the PML-F and burnt tyres on Sunday.

The SHO, Ayaz Tunio, said had refused to register a case on behalf of the PPP and instead, he had booked the PPP workers in the case.

Shahid Bhutto and Haji Munwar Ali Abbasi, PPP candidates running from NA-204 and PS-38, visited the town and held a meeting with the local PPP leadership. It was decided that they would directly file a petition in the court.