BADIN: SNF convention urges govt to shelve anti-Sindh water projects
Dawn Report
BADIN, June 11: The Sindh National Front at its convention held at the press club on Sunday rejected the controversial Kalabagh dam. The convention made it clear that the people of Sindh would never allow the government to implement its divisive policies.
Addressing the convention, Amir Bux Bhutto said that ruler’s decision to construct the dams would intensify separatist tendencies in smaller provinces.
He criticised statement of the state minister Kamil Ali Agha on the floor of the senate that the Kalabagh dam must be constructed “even over the dead bodies of those opposing the dam”.
Mr Bhutto said it was an insult to the sentiments of the masses and also detrimental to the national interests and said such plans were the continuation of oppressive measures perpetrated against Sindh over the years.
It was observed that attempts were being made to convert Sindh into a land of aliens as such the status of the districts in Sindh were being changed after creation of new districts and the people of Sindh were being exploited under well thought out plans.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement, MQM, was being imposed upon Sindh, which was nothing but hypocrisy and fraud, he added.
It was decided that SNF would hold demonstration outside Karachi press club on June 14.
Referring to the declaration of the democracy charter by two major parties — PPP-PML (N)—the SNF leaders termed it a document of “race for power” as there had been no positive approach for the real democracy for the benefits of the nations nor sovereignty under the resolution of 1940.
The convention was largely attended by the activists and party leaders including Amir Bux Khan Bhutto, Gul Mohammad Jakhrani, Allah Warayo Soomro, Latif Bughio, Ayub Shar, Wali Mohammad Jamali, Shamshad Kehkashan and others.
HYDERABAD: Leaders of the Sindh National Front have said that salvation of Sindh and Sindhis lay in following the SNF programme of confederation.
They said that the confederation had now been accepted by regional and federal parties.
Speaking at a workers’ convention of Hyderabad and Jamshoro districts on Saturday, senior vice-chairman of the party, Allah Warayo Soomro, vice-chairman Amir Bux Bhutto and general secretary Gul Mohammad Jakhrani said that it was for the first time that Sindhis had united on one platform as they had been utterly disappointed with the prevailing state of affairs. They said that the rulers now could not suppress the Sindh Qaumi Ittehad.
They said that Pakistan was in the grip of internal as well as external crises and domestic and foreign policies of the rulers had failed.
