HYDERABAD, April 12: The CIA police have reportedly picked up two alleged sympathisers of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) here on Tuesday.

Leaders and relatives of the radical nationalist party alleged that four other workers of the party had also been picked up from Karachi on Monday.

The CIA police had whisked away Inayat Shah alias Mehran Shah from the Pinyari area. He is reported to have quit the JSSM. No case has so far been lodged. Police sources believed that he was picked up by the personnel of CIA.

In another raid in the same area, police arrested Siraj Kalhoro, brother of Saghar Sindhi, a JSMM activist, from his home. Police, while denying their arrest, were not ready to share details. Our Nawabshah correspondent adds:

Activists of the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) demonstrated outside the press club here on Tuesday to seek attention of the authorities to 'disappearance' of four of their colleagues.

Hafiz Zain Bhutto, a leader of the party, and family members of the missing workers, told journalists that on Monday, the district president of the JSMM, Riaz Kakepoto, Qazi Ahmed taluka president Shahnawaz Bhutto and activists Ali Nawab Mehar and Jam Bhutto had approached the inter-city bus terminal near Rainbow Centre in Karachi to fetch a bus for their hometown after attending a hunger strike camp in front of the Karachi Press Club which had been organised for recovery of the missing workers.

They alleged that a heavy contingent of police, along with personnel of intelligence agencies, picked up the JSMM workers adding that their whereabouts were not known after passage of 24 hours.

They said that their cell phones were off and no agency or police was ready to give any information. They apprehended that the kidnapped workers might be executed.

Their family members have sought intervention of the chief justice of Pakistan and human rights organisations in the mater.

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