September 05, 2007	Wednesday	Sha'aban 22, 1428

JACOBABAD, Sept 4: The chairman of the Sindh National Front (SNF), Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, said on Tuesday that conspiracies were afoot to dispossess Sindhis of their land after having plunged the province into an abyss of problems and crisis.

Speaking at a reception hosted in his honour by Hindu Panchayat here, Mr Bhutto said that anti-Sindh elements, who had tightened their grip around the province, had clearly and vociferously declared their enmity with the land.

In 1988, when the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was coalition partner of Pakistan People’s Party, the MQM started carnage and sent bodies of Sindhis to interior Sindh, he alleged.

After Karachi, the MQM terrorist reached Thatta, Mirpurkhas, Hyderabad and even in Sukkur where they introduced the politics of lootings, killings and sending bodies in sealed bags, he charged.

WAPDA UNION: The central president of the Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union, Abdul Latif Nizamani, said on Tuesday that the workers would never accept the privatisation of Wapda and termed its privatisation totally unjustified and unconstitutional.

He said at a gathering of union workers at Wapda House that if the government went ahead with its plans to privatise Wapda by usurping the workers’ rights they could plunge the whole country into darkness.

Mr Nizamani said that the union had no affiliation with any political party and was not involved in politics because politicians tended to use unions for their personal interests.

Abdul Rashid Abbasi, divisional chairman of the union, said that a referendum to decide collective bargaining agent would be held on Sept 12.