LARKANA: Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) chairman Sannan Khan Qureshi has condemned police raids on the houses of JSQM workers and arrest of their elders in Ratodero.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, he said police had taken the action only to fail April 13 sit-in on the Bhirya Raod. He also condemned an alleged attack in which four workers of his party had been injured in Nawabshah.

He threatened to give a strike call if the people arrested during the raids were not released within 24 hours.

Flanked with Momin Samo, Athar Soomro, the chairman said it looked strange that police in three different FIRs registered with Ratodero police station had nominated even Salman Wadho who had been murdered.

He said police were keeping the elders of his workers at an undisclosed place where they were tortured.

JSQM leader Athar Soomro identified those arrested as Bilawal Udho, Nisar Abro, Khalid Samo and Haidar Samo.

NAWABSHAH: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Quami Mahaz Nawabshah held a demonstration on Monday outside the local press club in protest against the alleged attack on their workers.

Carrying placards and chanting slogans, they burnt tyres and blocked the road there.

Led by Sarfaraz Memon, Ali Raza Khaskheli and Ghulam Mohiuddin Magsi, they said some miscreant members of the Punjabi community had attacked their workers, including Irfan Abro, Sabir Abro, Mir Mohammed Solnagi, Mansoor Umrani, Noor Mohammed, Sajid Mugheri and others, when they were returning to Nawabshah from Bhria City after attending a protest against the brutal murder of Maqsood Qureshi and Salman Wadho and severely injured all of them.

They were admitted in the ICU of Peoples University Medical Hospital.

They said the community attacking the innocent workers considered Nawabshah as their state. “We know how to defend ourselves,” they warned.

They said the role of police was also questionable as no FIR was lodged or no one was arrested, though the culprits were still issuing threats to the workers.

They warned that if anything happened to the workers or their families, the Punjabi community leaders would be responsible for it.

The activists announced to hold a protest demonstration at Gajrawah on April 19.