HYDERABAD, March 8: The central committee of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party at a meeting held here on Sunday rejected the parliamentary committee on water as the "B" team of the government.
The recent meeting was presided over by the party's leader Dr Qadir Magsi. It was of the view that the parliamentary committee head, Senator Nisar Memon, had no locus standi as he was speaking the language of Kalabagh dam and greater Thal canal protagonists and working against the interests of Sindh.
The meeting observed that the committee had been exposed as instead of trying to find out real facts, it was pressurizing Sindh. It expressed no-confidence in the parliamentary committee and made it clear that the people of Sindh would not accept the recommendations of the committee if they were against the interests of Sindh.
The meeting resolved to hold the World Sindhi Conference at Hyderabad on June 26-27 and decided to invite Sindhi intellectuals, writers, poets, technocrats, historians and politicians living abroad to express their views in the conference.
A nine-member committee was appointed to chalk out an elaborate programme for the World Sindhi Conference. The meeting decided to hold the motherland day (founding day of the party) on March 21 in Hyderabad.
It resolved to launch a mass contact movement against the construction of Kalabagh dam and greater Thal canal. In a resolution the central committee decided to attend the meeting convened by the Sindh National Front chief Mumtaz Bhutto in Karachi on March 10 and also to attend a seminar organized by the Jhamhoori Watan Party in Quetta on March 14.
Taking notice of the statements of Muttehida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain and other leaders about the settlement of refugees from Bangladesh in Sindh and reopening of the Khokhrapar route, the meeting decided to resist any such move.
