HYDERABAD, April 29: A large number of PPP activists and People’s Youth leaders, led by MPA Zahid Bhurgari, Aftab Khanzada and Fayaz Shah, staged a token hunger strike outside the local press club here on Friday to protest against the arrests of party activists in Lahore and of MPA from Nawabshah, Mr Ghulam Qadir Chandio.

The protesters carried placards and banners inscribed with different slogans.

Talking to newsmen, the PPP leaders said that the undemocratic government has arrested hundreds of party activists, whose only crime was that they had gone to receive their leader in Lahore, which was their basic democratic right.

They said that these activists were still languishing in jails and demanded that the arrested workers and MPA Ghulam Qadir Chandio should be released without any further delay.

HESCO: The director of commercial, Hesco, Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, has constituted special teams to check the connections of chronic defaulters, whose power supply has been disconnected due to non-payment but they were stealing electricity.

These teams will conduct surprise raids throughout Sindh and register FIRs against those consumers who were involved in power theft.

The director commercial said that only a few people have heeded to the warning and tens of thousands of people, whose power supply was disconnected, have obtained illegal connections without clearing their dues.

He said, the company was incurring losses of tens of millions of rupees due to these power thieves. He said, Hesco has now launched ‘remove kunda and recovery’ campaigns in right earnest.

He said that no power thief will be spared and appealed to consumers to get their power connections regularized by clearing their arrears.