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HYDERABAD, Feb 9: People in Hala, hometown of Makhdoom Amin Fahim who is president of People’s Party Parliamentarians and a spiritual leader of Sarwari Jamaat, burnt an effigy of the Sindh chief minister during a shutter-down strike on Friday against the CM’s remarks against their leader they deemed highly inappropriate.
All the bazaars and business centres remained closed and attendance in schools and educational institutions remained thin during the strike.
Makhdoom’s followers Gheedro Sindhi, Ameer Bux Solangi, Ghulam Abbas Bhutto, Ghulam Akbar Bhutto, Syed Farooq Shah and Ali Sher Keerio led a rally, which paraded on different roads of the town before staging a sit-in outside the Hala press club.
Holding placards, banners and party flags they raised slogans against the chief minister and threatened to besiege the Chief Minister House if he did not stop the use of intemperate language against their leader. Earlier, they also burnt an effigy of chief minister at the Market Chowk.
The protesters said that the Makhdoom House was quite capable of defeating Arbab Ghulam Rahim in his own constituency and reminded him that Makhdoom Saeeduzzaman in the past had won a seat in Mr Rahim’s constituency.
They said that Mr Rahim should remember that he would not remain chief minister forever and advised him to better refrain from the using bad language against Makhdoom Mohammad Amin Fahim. Mr Fahim is also chairman of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy.
APPEAL: Two villagers on Friday appealed to the chief justice of Supreme Court to provide them protection from a judicial officer who was threatening to kill them if they did not withdraw a case filed against him for kidnapping one of them.
Ghulam Rasool Malik and his cousin Mohammad Umer Malik who are residents of Daur in Nawabshah district told a news conference at the press club that the judicial officer and his accomplices had kidnapped Mohammad Umer on June 9, 2004, on his way to Qazi Ahmed. Police had found Umer in Gambat a day after they filed an FIR at Daur police station.
Mr Umer said that the judicial officer was now issuing death threats to them.
To a question about the motive behind kidnapping and threats, they said that the judicial officer wanted to occupy by hook or crook Umer Malik’s 25 acres of land which was adjacent to his.
