Newsmen stage token hunger strike
HYDERABAD – The journalist community of Hyderabad observed token hunger strike in Hyderabad on April 18 against the arrest and alleged torture on journalist Zulfiqar Khaskheli district reporter of Sindhi language daily Ibrat of Hyderabad and demanded removal of District Police Officer Nawahshah Ghulam Sarwar Jamali on whose orders the journalist was arrested and was being tortured.
They demanded immediate release of the arrested journalist. Those who joined hunger strike before Press Club Hyderabad included Abbas Kassar, Anwer Siyal, Usman Ajmeri, Khalid Kokhar, Ghulam Hussain Hajano, Ghulam Hussain Khaskheli, Iqbal Mallah, Sarfaraz Vistro, Adeil Pathan and others.
It may be mentioned here that Zulfiqar Khaskheli was arrested on April 12, 2004, under orders of DPO Nawabshah on account of an year old report of altercation between two political parties Pakistan Peoples Party and Muttahida Qaumi Movement during the strike in City of Nawabshah.
Source: The Nation
Date:4/19/2004
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