KARACHI, July 5: Leaders of the Sindh National Party (SNP) and the Sindh Dost Ittehad (SDI) have strongly condemned the Monday night police action in Mehran Town and what they described as the highhandedness of the town police officer of Korangi.

They have also demanded registration of a case against him.

“Firing and teargas shelling by the Orangi police on a peaceful rally against the killing of four persons in Mehran Town is a conspiracy against the government,” SNP chairman Amir Bhanbhro and SDI chief Zafar Jandher told the media at separate press conferences at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday.

Mr Bhanbhro said that his party had organised a protest rally on Monday night against the killing of SNP leader Sain Bux Banglani’s brother on June 7. He alleged that a policy party led by TPO Korangi Usman Ghani carried out a raid on the SNP office in Mehran Town and opened indiscriminate firing, killing a party activist, Yasin Khoso, and a policeman, Naveed Tanoli.

Nazeer Magsi, Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi, Sattar Khoso and some other people were wounded in the firing and rushed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. “However, police picked up three of the wounded men at the hospital and took them away. Later, the police returned to the hospital along with their bodies,” the SNP leader alleged.

He called for an inquiry against the TPO and the other police officials, and warned that SNP and SDI would continue their protest until registration of a case against them.

Mr Bhanbhro also demanded a fresh post-mortem examination of the victims.

He said that protest rallies and a hunger strike outside the KPC would be held to seek justice and if the demands were not met within the next 72 hours, a sit-in would be staged in front of the CM’s House.

SDI leader Mr Jandher said that the police were trying to label the Mehran Town incident victims as ‘terrorists’, and demanded that his party would continue its protest until the TPO was booked in the killing case.