April 25, 2008	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 18, 1429

HYDERABD, April 24: An eighth class student, who is the son of the naib nazim of Dad Jarwar union council of Tando Allahyar district, staged a protest demonstration outside the press club here Thursday, demanding recovery of his father, who, he said, was being forced to change loyalty by PPP leaders.

Abdul Samad, son of Abdul Sattar Bozdar, resident of Masu Bozdar village, told journalists that his father was picked up by the SPO and the SHO of Chambar, Tando Allahyar Taluka Nazim Khair Mohammad Khokhar and Pakistan People’s Party MPA Imdad Pitafi on April 20.

“My father was taken to an unknown destination and we got in touch with him after three days over his cell phone. He told us that he is being kept in Khokhar Kot in the autaq (guest house) of Aftab Khokhar where other council members were also detained,” the boy said.

He said that his father told him that he was being forced to vote for no-confidence motion against Chambar Taluka Nazim Abdul Fayyaz Sheikh.

Ghulam Sarwar, the cousin of Abdul Sattar, said that the police were not helping them at the behest of MPA Pitafi. He said that they had sent fax messages to the Supreme Court, the police chief and home minister of Sindh and other authorities in this regard. He added that a petition would be filed on Friday in the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, to seek relief.