LARKANA, Dec 29: The Qambar firing case was transferred to the SP, investigation, Khairpur, on Wednesday. Police sources told this correspondent that three other police officers , Mohammad Usman Sabhayo, supervising officer, investigation, Shahdadkot, Anwar Gopang, TPO, investigation, Mehmood Abad,, Shikarpur, and Parvaiz Shaikh, inspector, investigation, Khairpur, would be members of the investigation team. They said the RPO, Sukkur, had constituted the new inquiry team.

On Wednesday, SP Abdul Ahad Sangri, along with the inquiry team members visited the Qambar town and the area where four people had been killed in police firing. The SP told journalists that policemen nominated in the FIR could be arrested before or after the inquiry.

The Sindh IGP's inquiry committee, headed by AIGP Asad Jehangir, also visited the town and recorded statements of the writing head constable of the Qambar police station. It also went to the Malkhan police station. The sources said the team would submit its report to IGP Syed Kamal Shah on Dec 31.

Meanwhile, about 100 people, including Qambar People's Party Parliamentarians president Malik Gaibi Chandio observed a hunger strike at the town's main chowk, demanding early arrest of policemen involved in the incident. The Shahdadkot Taluka Council at its meeting on Wednesday also condemned the killing of the four people. The meeting was presided over by Haroon Soomro.

SEMINAR: Speakers at a seminar on violence against women held the low literacy rate and strong roots of feudalism in society responsible for incidences of karo-kari.

The seminar was organized by the Amnesty International, Pakistan, at the Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto Memorial Library. MPA Sharafunisa Abbasi, AI-Pakistan general secretary Iqbal Detho, Sindhiani Tehrik leader Zahida Shaikh, District Bar Association leader Safdar Bhutto and others spoke on the occasion.