KHAIRPUR, April 1: Ten workers of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz were booked by the Ranipur and Tando Masti police on Wednesday night.

About 15 JSQM workers were rounded up in Ranipur on Tuesday when they tried to stage a sit-in on the National Highway to protest against the Kalabagh dam and Greater Thal canal projects.

Nine of them were later released but Mahar Hussain, Imtiaz Ali Khaskheli, Gul Hassan Khaskheli, Abid Hussain, Mansoor Qazi and Ghazi Khuhro were booked under section 341, 427, 353, 148 and 149, PPC.

Seven activists were arrested from the Otaq (guest room) of JSQM district president Amjad Mahesar. Three of them were released and remaining four - Maqsood Ahmed Mahesar, Yasin Sharaf Mahesar, Farhanuddin Mahesar and Shoukat Ali Shaikh - were booked by the Tando Masti police under section 341, 353 and 427, PPC.

Police have obtained their remands from concerned courts. Meanwhile, the JSQM district president alleged that police tortured the arrested activists. He demanded their release and withdrawal of cases against them.

He also alleged that police took away household articles during the raid on his Otaq.

BURIAL: Additional SHO, Kot Diji, Inayatullah Chandio, who was killed in an encounter with dacoits on Wednesday, was buried in Nangar Khan Chandio village, Kot Diji taluka, on Thursday.

His funeral prayer was held at Police Lines here and attended by the DPO, political and social welfare activists. District Nazim Nafisa Shah went to his house to offer Fateha for the departed soul. She promised to give employment to the heirs of the killed police officer.

PPP: A motorcade of People's Party Parliamentarians workers of Khairpur district will go to Garhi Khuda Bukhsh Bhutto, Larkana district, to participate in the death anniversary of party founder Z.A. Bhutto on April 4.

This was decided at a party meeting held in Faiz Ganj, which was presided over by PPP district president Sajid Ali Bambhan. It was also decided that caravans from the eight talukas will reach Khairpur from where they would leave for Larkana in a motorcade.