HYDERABAD: Journalists called off on Saturday week-long token hunger strike against police failure to arrest murderers of senior reporter Jan Mohammad Mahar, who was gunned down by assailants in Sukkur 56 days ago. Leaders of Hyderabad Union of Journalists (HUJ), which had staged the hunger strike, said the protest movement had now entered the third
The participants at the events raised the demand for fixing the minimum wage at Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 50,000 per month, an increase in workers' salaries keeping in view the inflation, doubling the pension and withdrawing all recent increases in the tariffs of water, electricity and petroleum products.