SUKKUR, April 23: An all-party conference on Sunday warned it would launch a resistance movement against an attempt by Sukkur district and taluka governments to bulldoze Sindhi localities in the city.

The conference was attended by leaders of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party, Tehrik-i-Insaaf, Sindh National Front, Human Rights groups, PPP (SB) and Awami Samaji Ittehad.

The leaders reiterated that they would not allow the district government to render homeless the Sindhi residents of Katcha Bundar who had been living on the right bank of River Indus for five decades.

They warned that all political, social, nationalist and religious parties would strongly resist the move.

The ruling parties had promised to the Katcha Bunder inhabitants during elections that they would regularize their localities after they came to power but instead they had decided to deprive them of their homes, they said.

The conference urged senators, MNAs and MPAs of the district to raise voice against bulldozing of Sindhi localities in Sukkur.

It alleged that the builder mafia in connivance with district and taluka governments was trying to construct commercial plazas after bulldozing houses of poor families.

The conference demanded in unanimously adopted resolutions the government rid the people of unannounced load-shedding and make arrangements for supplying potable water to people.