DADU: Activists of Sindh United Party held a demonstration on National Highway in Kazi Ahmed town on Monday in protest against encroachment upon 2,000 acres of state land in Shaheed Benazirabad district by an influential person.

The demonstration coincided with Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s visit to Shaheed Benazirabad.

Activists of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and other parties also joined the protest.

SUP central general secretary Roshan Ali Buriro and member of the party’s central executive committee Syed Zain Shah, younger brother of Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah, led the protest and said they would continue the protest till all occupied land had been vacated.

Zain Shah said that a political big wig had occupied the 2,000 acre land in riverine

area and demanded the government get it vacated immediately.

Published in Dawn, December 21st, 2021

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