HYDERABAD, March 27: The Sindh chapter of the Peace and Human Rights Trust has called upon the Sindh government to eliminate private jails of feudal lords and rescue thousands of bonded haris.

This was demanded at a meeting held here at the Hyderabad press club on Monday. Veteran leftist leader and former federal minister Mohammad Mukhtar Rana presided over the meeting.

It urged the Sindh government to respect the orders of the Supreme Court and recover eight family members of Mannu Bheel who were being held in captivity for the last eight years.

It called upon the federal government to appoint a judicial commission to root out forced labour from Sindh.

It demanded that district vigilance committees should be activated and effective measures be taken to rehabilitate liberated haris by allotting them government lands.

Mohammad Aslam Rana said that the issue of bonded labour was becoming complicated.

He thanked the chief justice of the SC for directing police to recover family members of Mannu Bheel.