KARACHI: People urged to fight for rights of Sindh
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, April 15: Sindh National Front chief Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has urged the people of Sindh to unite on one political platform and declare their stand on the rights of Sindh to face the injustices.
In a statement, he said the conflicts between Sindhis, living in the urban and rural areas, had caused a serious damage in the past, but now the outlook was very clear and the people of urban and rural Sindh had no obstacle in the way of unity.
Recalling injustices Sardar Bhutto said that Sindh had been exploited since the creation of Pakistan and now exploitation had increased to such an extent that it had become intolerable.
“Sindh’s income, businesses, jobs, and other resources have always been taken away by Islamabad. Lands have been given to outsiders as reward and more lands are demarcated to be thrown away in that manner while lakhs of people in Sindh remain landless, jobless and destitute”.
He said these injustices could only be met if the people of Sindh unite on one political platform. “It is tragic that even those who profess to have the same political outlook are unwilling to get together and add more strength to their cause”, he added.
The SNF chief said that he had no other mission in life now but to launch a struggle not only for unity of the people of Sindh, but of all those who plead the same cause throughout Pakistan.
He said it was most encouraging that the city-dwellers now clearly declare that they were Sindhis and Sindh was their motherland.
Terming it a positive development and a big step towards protecting the rights of Sindh, Sardar Bhutto proposed to hold another moot on the pattern of Sindh Solidarity Conference held on May 5, 2002, in Karachi of the urban and rural people to jointly declare their stand on the rights of Sindh.
