SUKKUR, Dec 27: A large number of activists belonging to the Citizen Action Committee took out a protest rally and staged a sit-in at the Clock Tower on Wednesday, against lack of civic amenities and unannounced load-shedding and detection bills by the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company, Hesco.

Activists of Pakistan People’s Party, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party, Sindh National Party, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf, Sunni Tehrik, Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan, Jamaat-i-Islami, Shia Action Committee and others, led by Mushtaq Surhio, Musharraf Mehmood Qadri and others, took out a rally which marched on the streets shouting slogans against the government. The rally participants reached at the Clock Tower, where they staged a sit-in for two hours.

Speaking on the occasion, the leaders strongly condemned poor performance of the taluka municipal authority and said that heaps of garbage and sewage water had accumulated almost on all the main roads and streets of the city, creating health hazards.

They said that most of the main roads of the city had been dug by the PTCL and the SSGC respectively for laying new cables and pipelines. They said the TMA, despite charging huge amount from the companies as road cutting fee, had left these roads in a condition which depicts the ‘scene of Moen-Jo-Daro.’

They warned of a strong protest movement if the city was not properly cleaned before Eid.