HYDERABAD, July 18: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz observed a hunger strike outside the press club on Tuesday in protest against disappearance of party leader Muzaffar Bhutto.

Mr Bhutto’s wife Saima Bhutto, sister Rani Bhutto and brother Shahnawaz Bhutto told reporters that Muzaffar was picked up by personnel of intelligence agencies nine months back but his whereabouts had not been made public till date.

They said that Mr Bhutto had not been produced in any court.

They said that in a BBC interview, the federal minister for information had assured them that he would try to find out whereabouts of Muzaffar Bhutto but the promise had not been fulfilled.

They appealed to the secretary general of UNO, national and international human rights organisations, international media and democratic countries of the world to raise their voice against arrest and disappearance of Muzaffar Bhutto and other nationalist leaders.—Bureau