NAWABSHAH, March 2: Employees of the district market committee held a demonstration outside their office on Thursday to protest against non-payment of their salaries for eight months.

Led by Zulfiqar Jatt and Gul Mohammad, they said their families were facing starvation because they had not been paid salaries for eight months.

They demanded immediate payment of their salaries.

RELEASED: More than 50 activists of the Jeay Sindh Students Federation, who had been detained on Wednesday, were freed from different police stations late Wednesday night.

The activists had been held for blocking a road in protest against the arrest of party leader Dr Safdar Sarki. No FIR had been registered against them.

DEMONSTRATION: Residents of the Hussain Chandio village, near 68-Mori, held a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Thursday against registration of what they called a fake FIR by the Jam Saheb police.

They told journalists that Mohammad Iqbal Chandio had lodged a fake FIR against Abdul Karim with the Jam Saheb police.