HYDERABAD, May 25, A large number of workers of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) workers staged a demonstration in Tando Mohammad Khan on Sunday to condemn the killing of party leader Tariq Khan in Karachi.

Led by the district president of the party, Pir Kaleemullah Jan Sarhandi, and general secretary Syed Dilawar Hussain Shah, the protesters raised slogans and demanded arrest of the killers.

The PML-N leaders demanded a judicial inquiry into the incident and said that the killing of Tariq Khan was an attack on democracy.

They said: “Terrorists have once again become active and are hatching conspiracies for bloodshed in Karachi.”

The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party and Awami Tehrik have also condemned the killing of Tariq Khan.

STP chairman Dr Qadir Magsi said in a statement that it was a case of target killing and that the terrorists were trying to convey a message that Karachi was their fiefdom.

He demanded immediate arrest of killers and exposure of hidden hands behind the killing.

AT chief Rasool Bux Palijo and other leaders alleged in a statement that Tariq Khan had been killed by terrorists who were being patronised by President Musharraf.

They alleged that the people who were involved in the killing had engineered bloodshed on May 12 last year and October 18 and April 9 this year.

In Sukkur, scores of PML-N activists took out a procession and staged a sit-in on Minara Road to protest against the killing of Tariq Khan.

Speaking on the occasion local PML-N leaders Hafiz Masroor Latif and Imam Din said that vested interests, who did not like the coalition of Pakistan People’s Party and PML-N, wanted to harm democracy.