HYDERABAD, Aug 4: Activists and central leaders of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) continued hunger strike outside the press club on the second consecutive day on Saturday in protest against what they called the government’s indifference towards rain and flood affected people of the province.

JSQM central leaders, Khadim Rajpar, Deedar Siddiqui, Shahnawaz Baloch and Iqbal Wagan said that flood victims had suffered billions of rupees of losses. The catastrophe had left thousands homeless with no resources to subsist by, they said.

They were now suffering from water borne diseases and hunger but the government had neither provided them any food nor medicines, they said and demanded that a detailed survey should be conducted about losses and each affected family should be paid immediate compensation of Rs500,000 to enable it to stand on its own feet.

The party’s central committee at its meeting held here the other day had decided to observe five-day hunger strike.

WARNING: The managing director of the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa), Abdul Maalik Khatri, on Saturday warned that if cattle-pen owners did not shift their cattle to the new Cattle Colony on Tando Mohammad Khan Road by Sept 1, the agency would disconnect water supply to their pens and block sewerage system.