QUETTA, May 13: Police and Anti-Terrorist Force personnel on Sunday stormed the Khuzdar Press Club and arrested six leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party, People’s Youth Organisation and the Sunni Tehrik.

They and other leaders and political workers were sitting in the press club after staging a joint protest demonstration. The arrested leaders included PYO’s provincial organiser Ali Ahmed, Mohammad Naeem and Maulvi Mohammad Hassan.

Earlier, a large number of activists of the PPP, PYO and the Suni Tehrik staged a joint protest in front of the press club against the Karachi killings.

They accused the government and its coalition partner in Sindh, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), of killing innocent people. They alleged that the violence was pre-planned and through it the federal and Sindh governments wanted to force lawyers and opposition parties to abandon their struggle, favouring the Chief Justice of Pakistan.

They announced that opposition parties would not abandon their ongoing movement and would continue to support to the Supreme Court Chief Justice. They demanded that people who were involved in firing on innocent and unarmed supporters of opposition parties should be arrested without any delay.