HYDERABAD, Nov 21: Former chairman Jeay Sindh Quami Mahaz (JSQM) Abdul Wahid Areesar has taken strong exception to the arrest and humiliation of Kehar Ansari, central president, JSSF, from the hunger strikers’ camp by the Market police the other day.

Mr Areesar said that the party activists had staged a hunger strike outside the press club for the release of the party chairman, Basheer Khan Qureshi, Niaz Kalani, and other political prisoners.—Bureau report

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