HYDERABAD, March 24: Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz-Bashir (JSQM-B) organised a sit-in at Hyderabad bypass on Saturday night against what they claimed an inordinate delay in registering a murder FIR of its leader, Bashir Khan Qureshi, who died in Sakrand town under mysterious circumstances on April 7, 2012.

Speaking to the participants of the protest, JSQM-B chairman and son of the deceased leader Sanan Qureshi appealed to the United Nations and other international organisations to form an inquiry commission to ascertain facts, saying that his father had been eliminated by the country’s security agencies who had been threatening him of dire consequences because the deceased leader advocated independence of Sindh.

He said that the police were not registering a murder FIR on the complaint of the heirs even on court orders.

The JSQM chief vowed to launch a Sindh-wide protest until the FIR was registered.

“The entire province will be sealed during the protest,” Sanan Qureshi warned.He said the chemical examination of Bashir Qureshi’s viscera confirmed that the leader was poisoned to death.

“I say good bye to the 1940 Pakistan Resolution today… I know my father was poisoned to death for his refusal to accept this state”, he said, and vowed to carry forward the mission of [late Sindh nationalist leader] G.M. Syed and Bashir Qureshi.

Other JSQM-B leaders Akash Mallah, Munir Hyder Shah, Amjad Mahesar, Kehar Ansari, Maqsood Qureshi, Abdullah Soomro, G.M. Burdi, Najaf Leghari, Safdar Tunio, Ashraf Kalhoro and others also spoke.

Dr Niaz Kalani, Asif Baladi, Saghar Hanif Burdi, Sarfaraz Memon and several other leaders were also present.

The bypass remained blocked for eight hours and agitating activists burnt tyres at different sections of the thoroughfare raising slogans against the administration, police and government. A strong contingent of the police and Rangers was deployed at Wadhu Wah Chowk, at a distance from venue of the sit-in but did not intervene.