KARACHI, May 12: Leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has termed the Muttahida Qaumi Movement resolution adopted by majority votes in the house on Thursday “contrary to the interest of people of interior Sindh.”
Mr Khuhro was addressing a press conference at the entrance of the assembly building where the joint opposition in the house staged a sit-in in protest against the resolution.
Earlier, soon after adjournment of the proceedings with the adoption of the resolution, opposition members came out of the hall raising slogans against the resolution and its supporters. They continued chanting slogans while stage a sit-in on the footsteps of the building.
Mr Khuhro said that by adopting the resolution, the MQM had proved that it did not want youths from interior of Sindh to come to Karachi for employment.
He said that the ill-intentions of the government had started with the devolution programme and division of Sindh through the introduction of separate police orders for Karachi and the rest of the province. This was followed by merger of all five districts of Karachi to make one district and forming of the city district government, while in interior of the province, even Hyderabad district with a population of one million, was subjected to division.
Mr Khuhro said the resolution was in violation of the constitution as it aimed at closing the doors of employment in Karachi on people from interior of Sindh. He said that the Sindh government had supported the ‘anti-Sindh plan’ of the MQM as it was shackled by this party.
The opposition leader said that the treatment would result in more people resorting to commit suicide or kill their children due to frustration and such a situation could only be attributed to this resolution.
Later, talking to a group of journalists in his chamber, Mr Khuhro said that the resolution was another step towards creation of ‘Jinnahpur’. He claimed that the devolution plan had already laid the foundation of a new province.
