HYDERABAD: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz-Riaz (JSM-R) staged a protest demonstration outside the local press club on Sunday against enforced disappearances and digital census in the province.

They reached the venue in a march started from the SU old campus area. It was led by JSM-R chairman Riaz Ali Chandio.

Speaking to the protesters,he accused the rulers of indulging in enforced disap-pearances and extrajudicial actions whenever issues of human rights and national interests were raised. He noted that while 10 years had not been completed, a digital census was being talked about.

He stated that rulers were convinced that oppression in Sindh should continue regardless of banlcruptcy being faced by the state. He said that rulers had decided to convert Sindhis into a minority within their own province. Sindhis were being denied their natural resources, he added.

Mr Chandio claimed that those activists who were struggling for a prosperousSindh were being killed or facing enforced disappearances.

He alleged that these activists were bearing torture for years in different cells, and police had been given carte blanche to resort to extrajudicial killings.

The JSM-R leader observed that cases of kidnapping for ransom had increased in Sindh as well, and this situation reflected lawlessness in the province.

He maintained that freedom of expression was being curtailed while parliament had become a rubber stamp.

He said political activists were facingterrorism cases whenever they would raise their voice against injustices.

He regretted that five youths were gunned down in Sul
JSM-R senior vice chairman Nawaz Shah Badahi said Sindh`s resources -Thar`s coal deposits and Ghotki`s oil deposits -were being usurped. `The ruling PPP has pushed Sindh one century backward,` he claimed.