HYDERABAD, Dec 14: Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party activists here on Sunday hurled stones, tomatoes and eggs on the participants of a motor rally taken out by the Pervez Musharraf Himayat Tehrik from Karachi.

The Tehrik participants first arrived at the local press club where their leaders delivered speeches and also talked to journalists.

Later, they went to the Hyderabad Development Authority Park, Qasimabad, where a dinner was arranged in their honour.

When they reached the park, activists of the STPP threw stones, rotten tomatoes and eggs on them while the police failed to take any action.

The protesters raised slogans against the rally and also asked the police to tell the participants to leave the area who did so.

The police tried to arrest the STPP activists but failed.

However, taluka police officer Abdul Hafeez Junejo, while denying that the rally was stoned, told this correspondent over telephone that a few children, led by Mehboob Abro of the STPP, raised slogans against construction of the greater Thal canal.

VISIT: A delegation from Punjab visited the Institute of Sindhology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro campus, on Saturday.

The delegation, comprising media coordinator Dr Shaista Nuzhat, Professor Afzal Tausif and others, visited various sections of the institute and galleries established in the names of well- known personalities of Sindh.

In its meeting with the vice-chancellor of the university, Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, the delegation members said that the Punjab government was also working towards setting up an institute of Punjabology in Lahore on the same pattern.