KHAIRPUR, June 18: Awam Dost Panel union council nazims and councillors and People’s Party Parliamentarians activists, including women, took out a procession here on Monday to protest against harassment of local party leader Syed Amjad Shah Jilani and vindictive action against the nazims.

The procession was led by Bukhari UC nazim Saleh Ansari and PPP ladies wing’s leader Ghazala Siyal. The procession started from outside Jilani house. The participants marched through different roads of the city and staged a demonstration outside the press club.

Speaking on the occasion, Khairpur taluka PPP general secretary Ali Sher Makol, Mr Ansari and Ms Siyal said that some leaders of a ruling party were harassing Mr Jilani, the nephew of Sindh PPP president Syed Qaim Ali Shah, to force him to join the ruling party. They said that ADP UC nazims and councillors were also facing political victimization and their family members were being harassed.

They alleged that the police and the district administration were helping the ruling party in carrying out vindictive activities. They appealed to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and other rights organizations to take notice of the harassment.