HYDERABAD: Demand for restoration of Sindhis’ right to rule
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, July 18: Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo has said that imperialist forces have imposed their rule under which Sindhis have been deprived of their right to rule. He said it was due to this conspiracy that the people of Sindh in cooperation with the people of other provinces had launched a consistent struggle to revive democratic Pakistan as envisaged by the Quaid-i-Azam.
He was talking to journalists at the hunger strike camp set-up by his party outside the press club here on Sunday.
Over 60 activists observed a token hunger strike to protest against occupation of coastal and super highway lands by outsiders, bifurcation of districts and talukas and issuing of NICs to foreigners.
He said attempts were being made to convert Pakistan into imperialist state and the rulers in fact were the paid employees of the imperialist forces.
He said the agents of imperialism had been given the target to convert indigenous population of Sindh into a minority and take over the control of Sindh.
He said the MQM was a creation of the CIA and the present rulers were more dangerous than General Zia. He said the prime minister was also a privy to all the excesses against Sindh.
SPLA: The dissident group of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association, led by its founder president Prof Liaquat Aziz, Prof Taj Joyo, Prof Maqbool Ahmad Shah and Prof Sakina Abbasi, observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Monday for acceptance of their demands.
They demanded restoration of the old procedure for assessing answer copies of compulsory Urdu paper of class-XI and teaching of compulsory Sindhi subject to non-Sindhi students of class-XI in accordance with a Sindh Assembly bill.
They further demanded that on the pattern of Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan, all boards of intermediate and secondary education should be handed over to the education department, retired officers reappointed in education boards should be removed and in-service professors be appointed in the boards.
