HYDERABAD, April 5: A grower who started hunger strike unto death outside the press club on Friday was persuaded by Pakistan People’s Party activists to call off his strike late in the night.

The PPP activists, who were returning from Garhi Khuda Bakhsh noticed the hunger strike camp and persuaded the growers Mohammad Siddique Soho of Mirpur Bathoro who was a former vice-chairman of Mirpur Bathoro town committee, to call off strike.

Mr Soho had staged the hunger strike unto death in protest against non-release of water into the Ganj Bahar canal in Mirpur Bathoro.

DEMO: Activists of the Hyderabad chapter of Muslim Students Federation (N) staged a demonstration outside the press club on Saturday in protest against the arrest of a Pakistan Muslim League-N leader and party activists in Karachi the other day.