December 18, 2006	Monday	Ziqa'ad 26, 1427

JAMSHORO, Dec 17: The Chief of Sindh United Party (SUP) and former deputy speaker of Sindh Assembly, Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah, said here on Sunday that his party was committed to seek full provincial autonomy within the framework of the federation of Pakistan.

He regretted that those political parties which were given mandate by the people of Sindh neither gave them their due rights nor even raised voice for the same.

Likewise, he said, water issue was a matter of life and death for the people of Sindh.

He was speaking at a sizable gathering -- the first public meeting of SUP -- at Jamshoro railway crossing on Sunday evening, where a large number people from lower and upper parts of Sindh converged.

The SUP was founded by Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah on December 9 at a convention held at Jamshoro.

He was highly critical of those political parties which, despite securing mandate from the people of Sindh, virtually failed to come up to their expectations, which even did not raise their voice in the National Assembly for restitution of their rights.

“SUP is the outcome of failure of these parties and I personally commit to you that give us mandate and “we will give you much better results than those who so far had been representing you in the parliament”, he said.

Pledging to seek rights of Sindh through a democratic struggle and ballot, he described SUP as continuity of United Party, formed after Sindh was separated from Bombay in 1935 and said demand for right was not a treachery.

“All of us have arrived in Sindh from different parts with some migrating from Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Hindustan and linked our identity with Sindh.

‘‘Let us introduce ourselves as Sindhis and you will get due rights which any ordinary Sindhi seeks”, said Jalal, who also briefly spoke in Urdu.