QUETTA, Jan 5: Women and children staged a demonstration outside the main gate of the Chief Minister’s Secretariat against the detention of Ali Asghar and Saeedur Rehman Bungulzai. Later, two ministers — Hafiz Hamadullah and Sardar Masood Khan Luni — received a memorandum from the protestors and assured them that it would be presented before the joint parliamentary group’s meeting of the coalition government.

About 100 women and children assembled at the hunger strike camp in front of local Press club on Wednesday and marched on to the secretariat.

The son of Ali Asghar and father of Saeedur Rehman said both of them were allegedly in the custody of an intelligence agency and if they had committed any crime then they should be produced before the court along with evidence.

They said that two hunger strike camps had been established for past few months where the family members of the detainees observed token hunger strikes but the government took no notice of their protest.

Hafiz Hamadullah and Sardar Luni assured the demonstrators that the memorandum would placed before the meeting chaired by the chief minister and that the government would do something about it.