KARACHI, May 15: Muttahida Qaumi Movement MNA Nisar Panhwar, MPA Yusuf Munir Shaikh and Special Assistant to the CM Ashfaq Mangi have severely criticized Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, chief of the Sindh National Front, for condemning the MQM-sponsored resolution on private jobs adopted by the Sindh Assembly on Friday.
In a statement, they accused Sardar Bhutto of pursuing the agenda of creating hatred among permanent residents of the province and, thus, proving his loyalty to anti-Sindh forces.
“Everyone in Sindh fully knows that it was Mumtaz Bhutto who, during the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto government, was instrumental in triggering off ethnic riots among sons of the soil to divide Sindh in collaboration with the Establishment,” they claimed.
“In the days his benefactor, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was about to be hanged in 1977, Mumtaz Bhutto struck a deal with secret agencies, in order to save his own life, to work for their interest in Sindh. He is still playing in their hands against the same remuneration fixed in those days,” they alleged.
They appealed to people of Sindh to distinguish between their friends and foes and foil the enemies’ conspiracies. They urged Sindh people to continue promoting amity and brotherhood among themselves.
Meanwhile, MNA Devdas and MPAs Ms Heer Ismail Sohu and Ms Fareeda Baloch of the MQM have defended the resolution on private jobs for local people, saying that this would help end the deprivation of rights of Sindh people.
They described those raising a hue and cry in this regard as ‘enemies of Sindh’, and said that PPP leaders could not bluff the permanent residents of Sindh by issuing statements against the resolution.
The resolution, they maintained, was in no way against the interest of Sindh. On the contrary, they added, it appeared in favour of the entire population of Sindh as it specifically addressed the multinational companies and industrial/trading houses operating in any small or big town of the province, asking them to recruit local people.
They also criticized the PPP for its campaign against Kalabagh Dam and Greater Thal Canal, and asked it to tell the nation that what had it done for the rights of Sindh while being in power for three terms. Instead of trying to hoodwink people, the PPP should tell people in whose government, funds for the construction of Thal Canal had been allocated.
They said that it was the MQM which could claim the credit of getting the resolutions against the Kalabagh Dam and Thal Canal projects adopted by the Sindh Assembly.
