DADU, March 22 Secretary-general of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) Dr Safdar Sarki has appealed to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to take suo motu notice of the enforced disappearances of party activists Akash Mallah and Noor Mohammad Khaskheli and order their release.

Mr Sarki said the law-enforcement agencies had picked the two party workers to force them to change their loyalties.

Addressing a procession taken out here on Monday in protest against their disappearance, he said they could not be frightened and would keep following the mission of G.M. Syed.The procession was taken out from Moundar Nako to the press club where it turned into a demonstration.

Mr Sarki said that Akash Mallah and Noor Mohammad Khaskheli had been picked up from Hyderabad five months ago and kept at an undisclosed location.

He said that he had also been arrested but he did not succumb to the pressure of the law-enforcement agencies, adding that several nationalist leaders and activists of Sindh and Balochistan had been arrested and killed in this manner.

JSQM vice-chairman Mohammad Rahimoon urged Sindhi people to unite to fight for Sindh. He said that Sindh had been denied its share of water, affecting economy of Sindh and leaving people to commit suicide.

A large number of JSQM and JSSF activists participated in the procession.

SSGC BOYCOTT Employees of the Southern Sui Gas Company boycotted offices and field work on here Monday in protest against manhandling of SSGC engineer Santosh Kumar by an influential member of Jamali tribe, Habibulah Jamali. They held a demonstration on the Dadu-Larkana Indus highway and burnt tyres there, suspending flow of traffic for an hour.

Their leader Zulifiqar Chandio accused Mr Jamali of demanding a commercial power connection illegally from an official who refused it and was beaten.

If a case against Jamali was not registered and he was not arrested, they would continue the protest, he warned.

But Habibullah Jamali said that he visited the SSGC office and demanded a legal gas connection but the engineer misbehaved with him. He denied all allegations.