KARACHI:Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durani visited the hunger strike camp set up by Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) outside the Karachi Press Club on Saturday and assured the MQM leaders present there that he will convey their party demands to Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah.
Durani said that he will talk to new Chief Minister Sindh on the issue and if there was any need to talk to others he will happy to do that to resolve the matter. He said that six of the recently arrested MQM workers have been released after the Chief Minister intervention.
MQM leader Kanwer Naveed Jamil welcomed Agha Siraj Durani at the camp. Several Muttahida workers were observing hunger strike at the camp, of which two of the workers fell unconscious on Saturday and were rushed to the hospital
for treatment.
MQM hunger strike entered its fourth consecutive day on Saturday, being observed against political victimization, injustices, arrests and extrajudicial killings. The party wants an end to arrest of party workers and their disappearances, Durrani was told.
It is to mention here that two days back Opposition leader in National Assembly Khursheed Shah also visited the hunger strike camp and promised to convey MQM’s reservations to the federal government.