HYDERABAD, April 19: A large number of sacked workers of Faran Sugar Mills, Shaikh Bhirkio, staged a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Saturday against their dismissal by the mills’ management under the IRO-2002.

The protesters carried placards and banners inscribed with slogans against the mills management and for the reinstatement of the sacked workers. Speaking on the occasion, the union leaders said that they were sacked under the black law of President Pervez Musharraf and their children were starving.

They said that the workers were also implicated in false cases by the management.

They warned that if they were not reinstated in the posts, they will stage a long march from Shaikh Bhirkio to Garhi Khuda Bux Bhutto on May 15, and go on hunger strike unto death on the mazar of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.