JSM stages strike against lawlessness

A shutter-down strike was observed in Kashmore-Kandhkot district on Thursday on the call of Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM), in response to the relentless kidnappings, robberies, and extortion crimes in Larkana and Sukkur.

JSM Chairman Riaz Ali Chandio also announced province-wide peaceful protests on June 15, in order to compel the government to take action against bandits and elements involved in the trade of narcotics. He lamented that a student of class three, Rohit Kumar, was kidnapped and killed on June 5 in Shikarpur while another child, Anas Kamran Thaeem, remains a hostage of dacoits.

The chairman deemed Kumar's murder a reason behind Thursday's strike, stating that outlaws fearlessly display weapons and convey their threats in recorded videos, but the province's policemen and rangers remain unable to hunt them.

Further, Chandio blamed the provincial government of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for patronising the bandits of the province's riverbed and forest areas. He said the people of Sindh, especially those living in the Sukkur and Larkana divisions, retain the right to live peacefully in their abodes, neighbourhoods, towns and villages.