SANGHAR, April 13 Walidad Khaskheli's wails went unheard and unnoticed during life when he was on hunger strike outside the Karachi Press Club in protest against an influential landlord, and it appears the wails of his family and friends over his death have also failed to stir the government into action.

Walidad, 70, had been on hunger strike for 20 days before death interrupted his protest on Sunday.

He along with his family and relatives accused Waryam Faqir Khaskheli, an influential landlord, former MPA and leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Functional, of ejecting them from their homes in the Mohammed Essa Khaskheli village.

His body arrived in the village late on Sunday night and he was buried on Monday in the presence of hundreds of friends and relatives who participated in his last rites.

No public or elected representative attended the funeral.

Walidad's nephew Madad Ali Khaskheli handed over to DPO investigation Abid Kaimkhani a copy of the FIR, which had been lodged at Karachi's Frere Town police station, because the death had occurred in its jurisdiction.

The aggrieved family has nominated in the case Waryam Faqir, Sinjhoro Taluka Nazim Dr Mohammad Hashim Khaskheli, union council nazim Noor Hussain Khaskheli, UC nazim Manzoor Brohi and Noor Mohammad Abro.

Madad Ali said that seven provincial ministers came to them in Karachi after his uncle's death and gave them assurances that they would get justice but nothing had so far changed on ground.

He said that Waryam's henchmen were still threatening them for raising voice against the injustice. He warned that if they did not get justice they would again go on hunger strike.

DPO Zulfiqar Junejo told reporters that he had not received any specific orders regarding the case. Security had been provided to the aggrieved family and police pickets had been established in the Essa Khaskheli village, he said.

DPO investigation Abid Kaimkhani said that police were evaluating the cases registered against Walidad's son and relatives at Sinjhoro police station and would cancel them if they were found false.

Sources in the village said that after getting 250 acres of government land allotted to his name, the landlord was now forcing peasants to leave the village.

The villagers said they had been living there for 30 to 40 years.