KARACHI, April 30: More than a dozen of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement activists, languishing in city's two prisons, have been shifted to different jails in the interior of Sindh, a spokesman for the party claimed on Friday.

The spokesman, Mr Kamran Rizvi, told Dawn that Mustafa Kamal, who was recently arrested along with the party chief, Afaq Ahmed, as well as 11 other party workers had been moved to the Hyderabad Jail early on Friday.

He said that the senior party figure and member of the Sindh Assembly, Yunus Khan, had been shifted to the Jacobabad Jail from Landhi Jail. Vice-Chairman Amir Khan had been taken away from the Landhi Jail to the Central Prison Karachi early on Friday, Mr Rizvi added.

He claimed that government was exerting maximum pressure on the party chief, Afaq Ahmed, to force him leave the country. Describing the Thursday's recovery of arms and ammunition from the Liaquat Market, Malir, in a police raid as 'politically motivated move', the spokesman contended: "We had been driven out of that area about 17 months back."

He pointed out that it was the 20th raid showing recoveries of this kind, and termed them 'fake hauls'.