Judicial probe into police action against villagers demanded.

DADU -- Leaders of several nationalist parties and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf have demanded judicial inquiry into police action against protesting villagers of Singhar Khoso and warned if all 25 women are not released immediately, they will stage a big demonstration on the Indus Highway.

Sindh Tarqqai-pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi, Awami Tehreek central leader Sajad Chandio, Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz-Arisar leader Dr Niaz Kalani, Jeay Sindh Mahaz chairman Riaz Chandio, JSQM-Bashir leader Deedar Sham, Sindh United Party's Roshan Ali Buriro, PTI leader and artist Deba Sahar and leaders of Sufi Sangat Sindh and Sindh Youth Action Committee visited a protest camp set up by villagers and activists in Singhar Khoso village on Sunday morning and said in unison that the government should order the judicial probe into the police action at the earliest.

They demanded immediate release of all 25 women who had been remanded in judicial custody for two days along with 26 men and warned if the women were not freed, they would stage a big demonstration on Sehwan-Jamshoro section of the Indus Highway near Singhar village on Tuesday.

They said that police had demolished 52 houses and taken away three trucks, two cars, over a dozen motorcycles and other valuables along with gold ornaments during raids on the two villages near Khanot town along Indus Highway on Friday.

Sehwan DSP Bashir Ahmed Khnharo, 14 police officials and as many villagers had suffered injuries during the clash between policemen and villagers at Singhar Khoso and Rajari villages. The injured were admitted to a Manjhand hospital and Syed Abdullah Shah Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, Sehwan.

Many protesters were booked, arrested after recent clashes with police

The clash took place when SHO of coal mines police station Mohammad Ayoob Odho along with a police party raided the Singhar village purportedly to arrest criminals wanted in a case, said police.

No sooner did police arrest five of the suspects and recover two trucks, than a mob of angry villagers including women attacked the police team with clubs and axes and managed to get three suspects freed after seriously injuring six police officials, said police

Later, the enraged villagers staged a demonstration on the highway near the villages of Rajrai and Singhar Khoso and suspended traffic for 14 hours, prompting Jamshoro ASP Aleena Rajpar, Kotri DSP Nazar...