KHAIRPUR, May 6: Central leaders of the ARD Tehmina Daultana and Zafar Iqbal Jhagra have said that the struggle for restoration of democracy will succeed and people’s leaders Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto will soon return home. Speaking at a workers’ meetings in Thehri and Khairpur on Thursday night, they said corruption was on the rise in all departments and rulers were supporting it.

They said the press was not free but police and other forces had full freedom to act as they willed.

They opposed divisions of districts in Sindh and said it was political victimization and not an administrative issue.

They said that poor people were unable to buy their daily consumers items and poverty had increased at a rate of 50 per cent.

They said the ARD believed that Balochistan issue was quite a sensitive one and its solution lied not in army operation but in negotiations. They said all democratic forces were united whereas parties in the government were divided.

They said efforts were afoot to get other political parties in the fold of ARD. They said President Musharraf was politically weak that was why he spoke language of threats.

PROTEST: Residents of Mithri, a town of Kotdiji taluka and its outskirt, reached here in motor vehicles and took out a procession against robbery and theft incidents in their area.