KARACHI: Engineer Gianchand, ex-MPA of Pakistan Peoples Party from Taluka Deeplo of Tharparkar district has alleged that armed men of former Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim has taken over the entire district. In a letter to the Director General, Rangers, Inspector General of Police, Sindh and other authorities, he drew their attention towards what he stated ‘worst kind of operation by private militia in Tharparker, which has taken over all the roads and police stations in Deeplo’. “The private militia has established check-posts on different roads and subjecting the people to inhuman torture,” he alleged. He further alleged that this private militia attacked the peaceful protesters of the PPP on December 27, 2007 in Deeplo town and severely tortured the innocent workers Mohammad Khan Lund, Meeyan Bajeer, Misri Langho, Irfan Langho, Shaukat Langho. The private militia took 20 PPP workers in maimed conditions to the Deeplo police station and again tortured them.—Agency