HYDERABAD, Feb 14: Leaders of different political parties have urged the people of Sindh to launch a decisive struggle for survival of Sindh and said that without provincial autonomy the country cannot survive.
They were speaking at a seminar on "Question of survival of Sindh" organized by the Awami Tehrik at the press club here on Sunday and presided over by its chief Rasool Bux Palijo.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that if the government announced construction of the Kalabagh dam, a struggle would be launched against it. "We need a Pakistan where there is a system of parity based on provincial autonomy, with the centre keeping three subjects and leaving other affairs at the disposal of provinces", he said.
Deputy leader of opposition in Sindh Assembly Makhdoom Jameeluzzaman declared that if the rulers announced the dam construction, the PPP with other political forces would take to the streets.
He assured people of Balochistan of full support of masses of Sindh. MPA Saussi Palijo said that rulers had not learnt any lesson from the dismemberment of the country and accused them of trying to disintegrate the country because they were not ready to tolerate those forces which were resisting their excesses and raising voice for their rights.
Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader Afzal Gujjar called for a joint struggle to rid the country and its people of army generals and said that some traitors of Sindh were also responsible for its present predicament.
Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party leader Muzaffar Kalhoro said that rulers had always suppressed voice of oppressed nations through dictatorial measures and added that except for a change in the state's behaviour or disintegration of the country, there was no way out for survival of the Sindhi people.
Comrade Hussain Bux Thebo of the Sindh National Council said that experts had rejected the Kalabagh dam on technical grounds as it had been proved that big dams caused environmental disasters.
Ayub Shar of the Sindh National Front asserted that federal system could not work in a multi-nation state like Pakistan. Professor Mushtaq Mirani, Ayaz Latif Palijo, Nazeer Qureshi, Zahida Sheikh and others also spoke at the seminar.
