SUKKUR, Oct 16: Former MNA Marvi Memon has said she plans to launch a new political party.

Addressing women health workers demonstrating in Thull on Sunday, she criticised the government for not regularising their service although they had been working for 16 years.

She said the health workers had been demonstrating peacefully in Lahore for the payment of their four-month salary when the Punjab police used force and killed a protester.

Referring to the kidnapping of a minor girl, who has remained untraced for the past five years, Ms Memon said police had failed to

recover Fazila Sarki because of inefficiency and negligence.

She said she would meet Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and appeal to him to take sue motto action for immediate recovery of Fazila.

Ms Marvi said she and members of Fazila Sarki’s family would stage a sit-in in front of the parliament house in Islamabad to put pressure on the government and other authorities concerned for the recovery of Fazila.

President of the Pakistan Lady Health Workers Association Bushra Arain demanded registration of a case against the chief minister of Punjab for the killing of the health worker.

Earlier, a large number of women health workers, including relatives of Fazila Sarki, took out a procession  against non-recovery of Fazila.