HYDERABAD, Nov 11: A group of people from the Thatta district have accused JSQM chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi of launching a campaign of vilification and character assassination against Shirazi brothers.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club on Friday, Wadero Moosa Samo, Gul Mohammad Samo, Bilawal Samo and Jam Bashir Samo said that Mr Qureshi had unleashed a propaganda campaign against the Shirazi brothers to protect murderers of Dil Murad Samo.

They alleged that the former vice chairman of the JSQM, Shafi Karnani, his brothers Haji Anwar and Iqbal Ahmed and nephew Niaz Karnani had murdered Dil Murad Samo in presence of hundreds of people in the bazaar of Thatta on September 5.

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