SUKKUR, Oct 9: A meeting of the central committee of the Pakistan Brohi Party was held here on Thursday to pay homage to the late Amir Bakhsh Brohi, a journalist, who was gunned down by armed men in Shikarpur last week.

The meeting was held under the chairmanship of its president, Imam Ali Brohi.

The PBP president strongly condemned the killing of Mr Amir. He also cited the tragic incidents of Karachi and Islamabad in which terrorists had killed innocent people, including the chief of the Millat-i-Islamia, Maulana Azam Tariq.

He said the law and order situation was not being effectively controlled by the government, which had created a sense of insecurity among the people. He, therefore, demanded the resignation of Federal Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat.

He said that when such incidents took place in Quetta recently, the provincial home minister, Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, and the governor of Balochistan, Lt Gen Abdul Qadir Baloch, had tendered their resignations.

He paid deep complements to the journalist community of Sindh for expressing solidarity and unity with the late Ameer Bakhsh Brohi.

He said journalists were being targeted every now and then, and referred to the killing of Shahid Soomro in Kandhkot last year, and added that they were being targeted because of their investigative reporting.

He called upon the governor, chief minister and IGP, Sindh, to take the strongest measures to arrest the killers of Ameer Bakhsh Brohi as soon as possible.

Later, the participants offered Fateha for the departed soul.

The meeting was attended by the provincial chiefs of the PBP from Sindh and Balochistan and its secretary general, Abdul Rauf Brohi, among others. Members of its ladies wing also attended the meeting.