HYDERABAD, Dec 8: Activists of the Awami Tehrik held a protest demonstration and observed a hunger strike outside the press club here on Wednesday against the deteriorating law and order situation in the province.

The protesters, including women, were led by party president Rasool Bux Palijo. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Palijo demanded that the Sindh government should be dismissed because it had failed to control lawlessness in the province. He alleged that a terrorist government had been thrust on Sindh.

He said an FIR should be registered against the Sindh IGP and Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Sherpao should resign from his post for failing to improve the law and order situation in the province.

Mr Palijo said after the kidnapping of Santosh Kumar and other Hindu businessmen and two judges and the murder of another Hindu in Shikarpur, the Sindh government had no right to remain in power.

He alleged that police officers appointed in Sindh were supporting criminals. Mr Palijo said construction of the Kalabagh dam and the Thal canal was a matter of life and death for Sindh.