Protest against Jang, Geo in interior Sindh
HYDERABAD: Protest demonstrations were held against Geo and the daily Jang in interior Sindh on Sunday and Monday, while a firing incident on the Jang office in Sukkur was also reported.
In some areas, a few copies of daily Jang were burnt and the telecast of Geo was shut down for a while.The reason of all this was the telecast of debate, conducted by the most popular channel Geo News, on the demand of new province in Sindh, which made some people of interior Sindh angry. The programme highlighted both favourableand opposing opinions on the demand for a new province and also broadcast views, thoughts and concerns and expressed solidarity with the province.
Meanwhile, Sohail Warriach, the host of the programme on which the objections were raised, said that he took great care during the programme and did not say anything which may hurt the feelings of anyone. He said he opposed the division of the province. He said slogans for the demand of the division had been inscribed on the walls of Karachi and wall chalkings were made in the past too in this regard.
He said Pakistanis wanted to hear opinions on this subject and issues could be solved through debates and people got awareness through such debates. Meanwhile, acting Chairman of Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party Haider Shahani, while addressing a press conference at the press club, said that the feelings of millions of Sindhis were hurt by broadcasting this programme on the division of Sindh province.
The Sindh United Party raised slogans against Jang and Geo. On this occasion the speakers said that the division of Sindh was a foreign conspiracy. Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mehaz (JSQM-Bashir Khan Qureshi Group) Hyderabad held a protest demonstration and staged a sit-in in front of the Press Club Hyderabad and burnt a few copies of daily Jang and raised slogans against Geo. The leaders of the JSQM in their address said that they wanted to tell the administration through peaceful agitation that they should apologize to the Sindhi people otherwise the ambit of the agitation would be expanded. Protest demonstrations were also held in Khairpur, Jaccobabad, Tando Muhammad Khan, New Saeedabad, and Nawabshah where angry activists of JSQM and other parties attacked newspaper shops, smashed windowpanes and burnt a few copies of Jang and The News. They also forcibly took some copies of da1ily Jang and The News from the hawkers and stalls at railway stations and set these on fire.
Source: The News
Date:7/26/2011
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