KARACHI: Hunger strike

Published May 31, 2006

KARACHI, May 30: PPP’s provincial youth wing, led by Aajiz Dhamra, staged a token hunger strike outside Karachi Press Club where leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly Nisar Khuhro, Senator Safdar Abbasi, Rashid Rabbani and Rafiq Engineer slammed the government.

Safdar Abbasi said the charter of democracy was the beginning of the movement against dictatorship. He was of the view that the situation in Pakistan was not different from Myanmar and asked the people to do something to change it for the better.

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