PPP condemns ‘harassment’

Published January 28, 2003

ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The Pakistan People’s Party said on Monday its workers in Sindh are being forced to change loyalties.

In a press release the PPP information secretary, Taj Haider, said that party workers in Ghotki were victimized despite assurance of clean politics.

He said that Attar Shah and his four sons were arrested by the police in a fabricated case and after securing a bail was rearrested in another case. The family said that one of Shah’s sons was missing, who might be hiding, Mr Haider claimed.—Reporter

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