Karachi The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) has decided to hold the funeral of its two leaders at the venue of its freedom march today (Sunday). The nationalist party had announced its “Sindh ghuray thee azadi” (Sindh wants freedom) march at Tibet Centre on 23rd March aimed at drawing the world’s attention to the excesses and injustices meted out to the people of Sindh by the state since 1947. But the march has turned into a protest sit-in in the wake of the murder of two senior leaders of the JSQM, whose charred bodies were found in a burnt out car on link road in Bhiria Town on March 21. Maqsood Qureshi, a brother of late JSQM chairman Bashir Qureshi, and Salman Wadho had left for Karachi from Mehar on the night of March 20 to review the arrangements for the “freedom march”. On Saturday, JSQM Chairman Sanan Qureshi, the son of Bashir, vowed the march would not to be postponed despite the murder of one of the party’s top leaders. Sanan, who received the bodies and took them to Karachi, said the brutal killings could not stop the party’s struggle for an “independent” Sindh. “They killed my father after our successful public meeting in Karachi two years. Now they have done the same to my uncle, days before our upcoming rally,” the JSQM chief alleged. The bodies would first be taken to Sanan’s house in Gulshan-e-Hadeed. After the funeral at the march, the deceased would be buried in Ratodero, where Bashir is also buried.
