HYDERABAD, Feb 28: The Sindh Taraqqi-Pasand Party has decided not to attend the all parties conference convened by the Sindh government on provincial autonomy but to attend the multi-party conference on restoration of democracy to be hosted by the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) in London.

A delegation of the STP, headed by its chairman, Dr Qadir Magsi, will attend the MPC.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the central committee of the STP held here on Tuesday evening.

The meeting observed that today it was not the question of granting autonomy to the provinces but the question of granting sovereignty to the federating units.

It observed that Pakistan was a ‘multinational’ state and unless the hegemony of Punjab was done away with and all the nations were given equal rights on the basis of sovereignty, no other formula was acceptable to the oppressed nations.

It noted that the bogey of provincial autonomy was being raised to deprive the Sindhi, Baloch, Pakhtoon and Seraik ‘nations’ of their right to sovereignty.

It alleged that the Sindh government was unconstitutional and undemocratic as it had been inducted ‘by force’ and through depriving the majority party of its right to rule over the province.