July 13, 2008	Sunday	Rajab 9, 1429

NAWABSHAH, July 12: Activists of Pakistan People’s Party-Shaheed Bhutto held a rally and a demonstration outside the press club here on Saturday in protest against killing of a party worker.

The rally started from PPP-SB office in Gharibabad and terminated outside the press club.

The protesters, carrying banners and placards and raising slogans against government, said that the government was victimising PPP-SB because it was afraid of increasing popularity of PPP-SB.

They claimed that party leader Ali Gohar Chandio was killed in a fake encounter by Karachi police. The rulers were implicating the party workers and leaders in false cases, they said.

They said that the government had failed to provide relief to masses who were facing price hike, unemployment and poverty. They demanded immediate arrest of the killers of Ali Gohar Chandio.

In Naushahro Feroze, activists of PPP-SB, SPSF-SB and its youth wing held a rally and observed a token hunger strike outside the Moro press club on Saturday to protest against the murder of former provincial president of SPSF-SB, Ali Gohar Chandio, in a police encounter in Karachi.

Local party leaders Comrade Saleem Rajput, Nasrullah Bughio, Haji Khan Samoon and Lal Bux Chandio led the rally, which after marching on main roads reached the press club where they observed token hunger strike for three hours.

They complained that Ali Gohar Chandio was killed on political grounds as some people in Qambar were not happy with him for taking part in last general elections.

They said that police had arrested Ali Gohar about a week ago and later he was killed.

They demanded immediate arrest of police official Ishaque Lashari, who killed their leader and was also involved in Brohi murder case, and demanded registration of murder case against him.