HYDERABAD, Jan 13: Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) Chairman Basheer Khan Qureshi said on Saturday that the party would lodge FIRs against the federal government and agencies at Shah Faisal police station of Karachi over enforced disappearances of party leader Dr. Safdar Sarki.

On Sunday, a similar FIR would be field at Bhittai Nagar police station against the kidnapping of Akash Mallah, he said while addressing hundreds of party workers who reaffirmed their pledge to follow the philosophy of G. M. Syed by lighting earthen lamps filled with their blood outside the press club.

He said that by lighting lamps with their blood they were sending message to the world that if they had to shed their blood for the prosperity of Sindh they would not hesitate.

He said the oppressed nations would not accept the status quo and continue struggle till they had secured their rights. Several workers of nationalist parties had been arrested and disappeared for raising voice for the rights of Sindh, he said.

He condemned the ongoing operation in Balochistan and inhuman treatment being meted out to Sardar Akhtar Mengal in jail and said that the party would celebrate the birth anniversary of late G. M. Syed in Sann on January 17.

HOUSING SOCIETIES: The registrar of Sindh Cooperative Societies Muhammad Sharif Awan on Saturday directed the officers of cooperative societies to get the unregistered housing societies register with the government so that people’s rights could be protected.

Presiding over a meeting of cooperative societies at his office he said that all the cooperative housing societies were legally bound to get themselves registered with Cooperative Societies Department and noted that a large number of them were functioning without fulfilling legal requirements.

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