A government school teacher was allegedly whisked away by men in civvies and police uniform in Sindh's Badin district on Friday, a day after his cousin, a former Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) activist, was picked up in a similar fashion.

The men who arrived in police mobiles and other vehicles whisked away Ubaidullah Jarwar, a primary school teacher, from a village some 70 kilometres away from Badin early on Friday, said his cousin Naseerullah Jarwar.

Naseerullah, whose brother Rafaqat Jarwar was taken away while he was sitting at a shop in Badin's Tando Bago town on Thursday, while talking to Dawn said Ubaidullah was whisked away in an identical manner as his brother.

He said Badin police, including Badin SSP Abdul Qayyum Pitafi, was still denying that local police had been behind the "arrests".

Naseerullah said both his brother and cousin were not wanted in any case or affiliated with any proscribed or nationalist party.

Local journalists and workers of various political parties staged demonstrations in Tando Bago, Talhar, Matli and other towns of Badin and demanded the release of the two men.