UMERKOT: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s MNA Lal Malhi has claimed he would organise one of the biggest sit-ins ever observed in the provincial metropolis on Sept 20 in which more than 100,000 people from across the province would participate.

The minority leader told a press conference that leaders of civil society, spiritual organisations and political parties and minorities had assured him of participation in the sit-in in front of the Chief Minister’s House to voice protest against unabated atrocities against minorities.

He said the participants would gather in front of the Karachi Press Club at 2 pm and then start the march to the CM House where they would stage a sit-in. the protest continue until their demands were met, he said.

He said he had received positive response from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research, Bheel Intellectual Forum, Kolhi Ettihad, Pakistan Hindu Council, Rights of Expression, Association, Assembly and Thought, Ghosia Jamaat, PML-N MNA Nandlal, Awami Tehreek and minority people from each nook and cranny of the province.

Earlier, a rally was taken out in Kunri town in protest against the murder of Heera Lal, Ashok Kumar in Umerkot and Zohaib Qambrani in Kunri.

Published in Dawn, September 18th, 2014