HYDERABAD, Aug 8: The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party has criticized the federal government decision to allocate 71 per cent of Sindh districts development funds only for Karachi and 29 per cent for the rest of the province.

Speaking at a gathering of his party workers here on Wednesday, STPP chief Dr Qadir Magsi said that this spoke volumes for the malafide intentions of the government.

He said that the great injustice had been done with the backward areas of Kachho, Kohistan and Nara in respect of the allocation of development funds.

He said that the military rulers were working on the agenda of uprooting the parliamentary democratic system in the country through worst type of centralization and this was the reason that the army was being given a definite political role in the Constitution.

He said that the military rulers had blown the trumpet of decentralization, more powers to the provinces, good governance and eradication of corruption to hoodwink the international community and the people of Pakistan.

THAL CANAL: The leaders of the “Anti-Thal Canal Movement”, belonging to three nationalist parties — Sindh National Council, Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz and Sindh National Party — at a meeting held here on Tuesday decided to celebrate the “Indigenous Peoples International Day” on Aug 9 in a befitting manner.