THATTA, May 15: Activists of People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP), office-bearers and a number of former legislators observed a token hunger strike outside the press club on Tuesday in protest against loss of innocent lives in Karachi and probable division of Thatta district.

Members of District Bar Association and a large number of activists of Awami Tehrik, Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party and Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz also joined the hunger strikers’ camp and offered Ghaibana Nimaz-i-Janaza of all the people who lost their lives in Karachi.

The leaders said that the rulers had exposed their real face by using MQM to sabotage scheduled visit of chief justice, but their days were numbered and MQM would soon be made accountable for its crimes against humanity.

They claimed that homework for the creation of a new district "Bhambhore" had been completed secretly by revenue experts under a pre-planned conspiracy to provide maximum opportunities to MQM to widen its political and financial influence in rural Sindh. The government was now cunningly examining the public pulse to go-ahead with the plan, they said.

They said that landlords had grown more influential in the new districts. The party would launch a province-wide campaign if the rulers went ahead with their plan, they warned.—Correspondent