Rs0.6m offered for infamous shoe

Published April 10, 2008

SANGHAR, April 9: A Pakistan People’s Party activist has announced that he was ready to pay Rs 0.6 million for the shoe used in the assault on former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim in Sindh Assembly.

PPP activist Kazim Hakim told journalists that he wanted to put the shoe in his privately maintained museum. He said that the leather shoe was a lesson for traitors of Sindh.

Our Mirpurkhas correspondent adds: A complete shutter down strike was observed in Pithoro district of Umerkot on Wednesday to protest against manhandling of Sindh president of PML-Q and former Sindh chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim.

A rally led by union council nazim Shaukat Nohri has been taken out from Mir Murtaza Bhutto chowk of the town.

Protesters carried banners and placards marched through main roads and condemned the manhandling of Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim.

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