HYDERABAD, Dec 24: Activists of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) continued hunger strike outside the Hyderabad press club on the fifth consecutive day on Sunday. They are protesting against the arrest and ‘enforced disappearance’ of nationalist leaders, Dr. Safdar Sarki, Akash Mallah and Asif Baladi and the alleged inhuman treatment they were being subjected to in jails.

A large number of JSQM activists marched from Kotri to Hyderabad press club to join the hunger strikers. Party leaders Sirai Qurban Khawar, Alam Bughio, Ghani Mangrio and Irfan Bhalai said that they would not give up struggle for the rights.

Senior JSQM leader Dr. Niaz Kalani said that the so-called democratic government was not ready to tolerate even a peaceful struggle and protest by the workers of nationalist parties.

The nationalist leaders had been picked up by agencies and had been held incommunicado although they had not committed any crime except for raising their voice against the injustices unleashed against Sindh which was their legal, constitutional and democratic right, he said.

He warned that the government’s measures could lead to rebellion and demanded that the arrested leaders should be produced in court and they should be allowed all the facilities permissible under jail manual.