January 21, 2006	Saturday	Zilhaj 20, 1426

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THATTA, Jan 20: A general body meeting of the District Bar Association, Thatta, through a resolution adopted unanimously here on Friday, condemned the military operation in Balochistan, air attack on civilians by US forces in the Bajaur Agency and construction of dams on the River Indus.

The meeting was presided over by the association’s president Syed Mohammad Shah.

The meeting observed that civilians, mostly women and children, were being brutally killed and their houses and other properties were being destroyed in the name of operation.

Supporting the struggle of the Baloch people for safeguarding their natural resources and the provincial autonomy and their resistance against turning them into a minority in their own homeland, the bar demanded that problems should be resolved by negotiations instead of the military operation.

The resolution said bombardment in Bajaur Agency by US forces amounts to open violation of the sovereignty of Pakistan and reveals the Pakistan government appendage to the US superpower hegemony.

The DBA general body meeting demanded that the government of Pakistan should take up the US interference at international level and should not conceal it under the carpet.

Supporting the struggle of the people of Sindh, NWFP and Balochistan against construction of dams over the River Indus, the bar was of the opinion that Sindh has got basic and historical rights over waters of the River Indus and the dams on the Indus would facilitate Punjab and ultimately turn Sindh into a desert.

The resolution called for revision policies, particularly in context of oppressed smaller nations, and wise decisions should be taken on sensitive issues instead of creating hatred in general population of the country.

ANTI-DAM MARCH: Sindh National Party activists here on Friday took out a five kilometres long protest march from Chhatto Chand to the Thatta town on the National Highway against construction of dams on the River Indus and army operation in Balochistan.

Led by SNP chairman Amir Bhambro, party activists holding banners and party flags, started march from Chatto Chand and halted in front of the Thatta Press Club where Amir Bhambro, Dilshad Bhutto, Asghar Noonari and others addressed the participants of the march.

They said that under a pre-planned conspiracy dams on the Indus River were being constructed to compel the Sindhi people, who were dependent on agriculture, to sale their lands to Punjabis on through away price and create a situation to enslave them.

Speakers said none of the Sindhi would think even to betray his motherland and stand firm and fight till the last drop of blood for the legitimate rights of Sindh.