August 13, 2006	Sunday	Rajab 17, 1427

HYDERABAD, Aug 12: The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party (STPP) has condemned the massacre of innocent civilians including children, women and elderly by Israel in Lebanon and appealed to the United Nations and international community to work swiftly to end the bloodshed.

The party’s central committee meeting, chaired by STPP Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi on Friday, called for an immediate end to Israeli aggression and feared the war might get out of control and engulf the entire world.

The meeting decided to stage a peace march on August 17 from Shahbaz building to the Hyderabad press club to register its protest against the blatant Israeli atrocities.

The meeting expressed its dissatisfaction over the house census and preparation of voter lists and alleged that census had deliberately left out a large number of houses throughout the province. The census had, under a preconceived conspiracy, overlooked 70 to 80 per cent of houses belonging to Sindhis in Karachi, it charged.

The meeting demanded that the date for census be extended, the names of illegal immigrants in Karachi and other towns of the province entered in voter lists and house census be deleted and they be expelled from the province.

Referring to the Steel Mills scandal, the meeting said that Gen Pervez Musharraf and his team had forfeited the right to remain in power in the wake of its policies’ failure and the countries’ democratic, nationalist and religious parties’ endorsement of the charter of democracy.

The meeting demanded an interim government under the chief justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan to hold fresh general elections under the supervision of an independent election commission.

The meeting rejected the district government Hyderabad’s proposal for declaring the district as a city government and alleged that the step was part of MQM’s conspiracy to divide Sindh and expel Sindhis from all the administrative posts. The party and Sindhis would resist it tooth and nail, the meeting warned.