KARACHI, Nov 2: Karachi division of the Pakistan Peoples Party has reacted strongly to the registration of FIRs against the President of PPP Sindh, Nisar A. Khuhro, MPA Murad Ali Shah, Qamber Leghari and others. It said no conspiracy would succeed in ending the ongoing campaign for the water rights of the province.

These views were expressed at a meeting held on Sunday which was chaired by Muzaffar Hussain Shujra. In one of the resolutions adopted at the meeting, the participants condemned the arrest of Javed Hashmi and demanded his release immediately.

The resolution said after the “illegal” arrest of an opposition leader from the precincts of the parliament and the use of threatening language against its members, Prime Minister Jamali had no legal justification to remain premier at a time when the PML-Q had defaced democracy.

The resolution claimed that PPP Karachi division would play its due role whenever it was given a call to mount a “struggle against autocratic rule”. The meeting paid tribute to Asif A. Zardari for his “consistency and determination to continue to face hardships in prison for the last seven years without any concrete proof against him”.

It was decided that a protest would be staged outside the Karachi Press Club on Nov 5 on the completion of seven years since Mr Zardari’s arrest.

In resolutions adopted at the meeting, concerns were expressed over the increasing prices of petroleum products, vegetables, fruits, mutton and beef and other articles of necessity, worsening law and order situation, traffic jams in Karachi, loadshedding, water scarcity and other hardships being faced by the people during Ramazan.

The resolutions termed the government policies repressive and anti-people and observed that the coalition government had failed miserably in properly running the affairs of the government. The PPP, being the single largest party in the province, be asked to form a government, they said.