KARACHI, May 12: Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, the Chairman of the Sindh National Front, has suggested forming a grand opposition alliance for restoring true democracy and bringing real change in the country.

”Genuine and effective devolution of powers, from the centre to the grassroots level, has now become a sine qua non. A grand alliance of all opposition parties on this one-point agenda has emerged not only as a distinct possibility but a logical necessity,” he said in a proposal to leaders of major opposition parties and alliances on Friday.

He urged the opposition leaders, including Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Qazi Hussein Ahmed, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Imran Khan, Asfandyar Wali, Attaullah Mengal, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, to give a serious thought to this course of action as a “short route to real change and true democracy”.

He said that, alarmed by increasing centrifugal forces, everyone from mainstream political parties to nationalists and even military rulers, agreed that nations and territories constituting Pakistan must have their inherit rights and powers.

Mumtaz Bhutto, a former Chief Minister of Sindh, said that taking into consideration the painful experience of past and stark present realities, he had been proposing since 1985, that a confederal system should be adopted to give provinces their rights and consolidate what remains of Pakistan.—PPI