HYDERABAD, May 8: Four organisations staged demonstrations outside the press club on Tuesday against the arrest of Awam Dost Panel nazim of union council Moosa Khatiyan Syed Shafqat Hussain Shah Jamote.

Activists of People’s Party Parliamentarians led by MPA Zahid Bhurgri, Amanullah Siyal, Roshan Solangi and Pasha Qazi staged a token hunger strike and demanded immediate release of the UC nazim.

Activists of Sindh People’s Students Federation led by Akhtar Bhurgri and Lala Aamir Pathan also staged a demonstration outside the press club. They said that the UC nazim had been implicated in false cases after he refused to change loyalty.

The Jeay Sindh Students Federation also staged a demonstration against the UC nazim’s arrest and the enforced disappearances of several nationalist leaders.

Leaders Habib Bhutto and Sono Khan Lashari condemned the arrest of nazim and demanded that Mr Shah should be released and the missing nationalist leaders should be produced in courts.

Activists of Sindh Nojawan Taraqqi-Pasand Samaji Tanzeem also staged a demonstration against the arrest UC nazim and demanded his release.

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