KARACHI, Oct 7: The sale of two Karachi islands Baddo and Baddal is a continuation of the 'loot sale' of national assets and this act is linked to the bids of imperialist forces to occupy the strategic coastal belt of Pakistan, said the speakers of a demo here on Saturday.

The demo was staged by the Labor Party Pakistan in front of Karachi Press Club. Protestors, including a large number of workers and women, chanted slogans against privatization, poverty, US expansionism and imperialism.

Speaking at the demo, the speakers said the sale of two islands was not an isolated act but it should be studied with the bids to privatize Pakistan Steel, KPT and Karachi Shipyard. They said foreign interests had been eyeing the coastal belt of Sindh since long. They said the future of Karachi coast and its organizations had already been put on the stake.

They said that the people of Sindh were deprived of basic facilities. but the government was busy to create new paradises for investors and industrialists by selling whole islands.

The demanded that the decision be immediately withdrawn, and urged the judiciary to take a suo moto action.

They announced that workers of Karachi with help of people of Sindh would foil the conspiracies.—PPI