JACOBABAD: A large number of people from civil society and the members of Qutab Rind’s family demonstrated a protest against the brutal murder of Pakistan’s renowned artist and position holder graduate of National College of Arts (NCA) Lahore , in Jacobabad Sindh, here on Tuesday. Addressing from a large gathering the protestors rejected all allegations of dispute on rent and blasphemy and demanded to form a JIT (Joint investigation team) to investigate the matter. Civil society leaders said that Qutub’s brutal murder is not only the murder of student but also the murder of intellectual and talented artist of Jacobabad,”we assume that Qutub’s murder is a murder of national talent” said the rally participants. It is time that we find end to these alleged killings under the banner of ‘blasphemy’. Protestors demanded that Police should play its required role to conduct the fair enquiry and trail otherwise country wide protests would be held. The rally was led by M. Jan Odhano of CDF, Qutub’s uncle Gul Baig Rind, Qutub’s fellow Waheed Bhutto, Gul Buldi of Dastgeer Legal Aid, Ghanzafar Pathan of DCC, Human Rights Activits ;Qurban Ali, Nadeem Baharni and others. Rally was demonstrated from Shaheed Allah Bux park by walking and chanting slogans against the police and the chief minister of Punjab. The rally ended at press club Jacobabad. Published in Daily Times, August 8th 2018.