December 22, 2008	Monday	Zilhaj 23, 1429

HYDERABAD, Dec 21: A large number of Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party activists held a demonstration and observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Sunday to protest against the arrest

of party leader Dr Ahmed Noonari, his brother Basheer Noonari and 28 other activists in Tando Mohammad Khan and registration of false cases against them.

Speaking on the occasion, Muzaffar Kalhoro, Sachal Gopang and others demanded that the party activists be released forthwith and false cases against them be withdrawn.

They demanded removal of Tando Mohammad Khan DPO Attaullah Chandio and arrest of Sirhandi Pirs and their followers who had attacked the house of Ahmed Noonari.

They claimed that a court of law had ordered registration of a case against the Sirhandis but the DPO had refused to comply with the order.

They warned that if their demands were not accepted, they would launch a protest movement throughout Sindh.

Meanwhile, STP chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has said that the government had failed on all fronts and its writ has disappeared in Sindh.

Speaking to party workers, he said lawlessness had become the order of the day in Sindh and poverty, hunger and unemployment had crossed all limits.