HYDERABAD, July 27: Twenty activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), taluka Kotri, here on Friday staged a protest demonstration and observed hunger strike outside the press club here on Friday against the alleged rape of a village girl, Ms ‘R’, in the operation theatre of the TB Sanatorium, Kotri, by two hospital employees a few days back.

They raised slogans against hospital administration.

The Mahaz leaders, Abdul Fatah Channa, Talib Hussain, Abdul Hadi and others, raising slogans against the hospital management, claimed that it had hushed up the matter.

They demanded an impartial inquiry into the alleged rape and an immediate arrest of the accused.

HUNGER STRIKE: Six former employees of the Zeal Pak Cement Factory continued their token hunger strike outside the press club here on the 10th consecutive day, Friday.

They are protesting against the non-payment of their golden handshake, gratuity and provident fund dues. They demanded arrested of the factory owner and the leaders of the former CBA union for ‘defrauding’ the employees to the tune of tens of millions of rupees.

The Chairman of the Labour Party of Pakistan (LPP), Sindh, Dost Mohammad Channa and Vice President, Ali Nawaz Khehar, along with other party workers also joined in the hunger strike to express solidarity with the factory workers.

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