HYDERABAD, Nov 26: A large number of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz activists staged a protest demonstration outside the press club and continued their hunger strike on the 7th consecutive day here on Monday.

According to the programme, the first phase of their protest against the imprisonment of party chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi, Niaz Kalani and other activists, influx of Afghan nationals into Sindh, acute shortage of water and transfer of 17 Dehs of Ghotki district to Punjab ended today.

They announced that protest will be resumed in an other form after Eid.

Addressing the rally, JSQM joint secretary Serai Qurban Khawar said that the political parties of Sindh were only interested in power but they were least interested in the resolution of burning issues confronting the Sindh province. He said this was the reason that theses parties were now entering into an election alliance.

He said there were other parties who were advocating that the Afghan deserters should be allowed to enter Sindh as they will go back after things had settled down in Afghanistan.

He said this was just wishful thinking and added that Sindh had become an international orphanage and those who had settled at Sohrab Goth in Karachi would never ever go back to their own country.

He said that hundreds of Afghan deserters had settled around the Jamshoro campus and warned that if they were not uprooted, the JSQM itself will take up the cudgel against the Afghan deserters.

Referring to the shortage of water, he said that for as long as one could remember, Punjab was trying to take over the complete control of the River Indus.

He demanded that the water agreement of 1945 should be implemented.

He said hundreds of party activists, including its chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi and JSSF president Kehar Ansari, had been imprisoned in false cases.

Condemning the murder of Dr. Ghulam Ali Shaikh, medical superintendent of central jail, Hyderabad, Mr Khawar claimed that Kehar Ansari was not involved in the murder as alleged by Tehrik-i-Jafria.