LAHORE / HYDERABAD: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Friday held demonstrations in Lahore, Hyderabad and other cities and towns of Punjab and Sindh in protest against what it called extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of MQM workers.

In Lahore, the party workers staged a demonstration outside the press club.

Led by the MQM’s coordination committee member Iftikhar Randhawa, the protesters carried banners and placards inscribed with various demands. They raised slogans against ‘unlawful’ arrests and ‘extrajudicial’ killing of their colleagues in Karachi.

Mr Randhawa warned the authorities concerned that if ‘atrocities’ against the MQM workers did not come to an end then “party activists in plainclothes would also become active”.

Protests were also held in Faisalabad, Multan, Sargodha, D.G. Khan, Bahawalpur, Sahiwal and other towns of Punjab, and Hyderabad, Jacobabad, Larkana, Mirpurkhas, Nawabshah and Naushahro Feroze in Sindh.

The party workers took out processions from MQM offices in these towns. They rejected the Protection of Pakistan Bill.