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Hunger strike

RECORDER REPORT

HYDERABAD: Eleven activists of PPP (SB) led by Irfan Kalhoro, Ramzan Khuman, Mehboob Siyal and others observed token hunger strike outside the Hyderabad Press Club here on Monday to protest against the inordinate delay in the dispensation of justice in the murder case of Mir Murtaza Bhutto.

Talking to newsmen the hunger strikers said that the proceedings in Murtaza case were being delayed and the accused were being released on bail on after the other.

They demanded that Asif Zardari and other accused should be publicly hanged. They also raised slogans of "long live Murtaza".