QUETTA, Aug 30: A woman has threatened to organize a long march of women to the Governor’s and Chief Minister’s Houses on Sept 6 in protest against alleged illegal confinement of her husband, who, she said, had been in the custody of a federal intelligence agency since October 2001.

Noor Bibi, wife of Ali Asghar Bungulzai, speaking at a press conference at the press club on Tuesday, appealed to President Pervez Musharraf to take notice of the intelligence agency’s excesses.

She said her children had observed token hunger strike in front of the press club for the past 56 days but the government had not taken notice of the protest.

She said the agency should release her husband as it had failed to prove any charge against him or present him in a court in four years.

She said that after the long march, women and children would set up hunger strike camps at different places in the city from Sept 10.

She said her eight children would go on fast unto death from Sept 20 and women would block roads in the provincial capital on Sept 21 if Mr Bungulzai was not released.

She urged human rights organizations, political parties and other democratic bodies to raise voice against the injustice faced by her family.