HYDERABAD, April 18: Activists of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) and members of civil society staged a demonstration outside the press club on Friday in protest against prolonged incarceration of leaders of JSMM and nationalist leaders.

The protesters demanded release of Asghar Shah, Muzaffar Bhutto, Sattar Hakro, Asif Baladi, Nawaz Khan Zounr, Sikandar Soomro, Safdar Sarki and many others, who they said were languishing in jails.

Party leaders Hafeez Sindhi, Hafeez Pirzado and Punhal Sario alleged that the nationalist leaders had been arrested by agencies under false cases. A false case had also been registered against JSMM chairman Shafi Mohammad Burfat, they said.

They said that the imprisoned leaders were being tortured and the head money for the arrest of Shafi Mohammad Burfat and Khalil Khaskheli was tantamount to issuing their death warrants. They demanded that all the nationalist leaders should be released forthwith.show-cause: The discipline committee of the University of Sindh on Friday decided to issue show-cause notices to the four students who were involved in attacking their fellow students, Niaz Hussain Chandio and Ali Nawaz Chandio.

The students had said in their application that the attackers identified as Bahram Pathan, Waheed Suhag, Nazeer Jakhar, Fida Lakho, Ali Nawaz Samejo, Mehroz Bhatti and others attempted to murder them but the escaped with serious injuries to Niaz Chandio on April 16.

The complainants requested to take action against the students involved in the attack and the committee summoned them to record their statement and also issued show-cause notices to the attackers asking them to appear before the committee on April 29.

DATE EXTENDED: The director of admissions of the University of Sindh on Thursday extended the deadline to May 15 for submission of fee for admission to LLM Part-I for the academic session of 2006-07.