Mumtaz for Sindhis’ unity

Published September 23, 2007

DADU, Sept 22: The chief of Sindh National Front, Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, met politicians and former parliamentarians here on Friday.

He called on feudal lords, politicians, former parliamentarians, students and farmers organisations’ leaders in the district.

He visited former MPA Muneer Ahmed Channa, Nazeer Ahmed Channa, district naib nazim Dadu Syed Mohammed Shah, former MPA Akbar Khan Laghari, former MPA Haji Ameer Bux Junejo, PPP Sindh council member Qazi Shafiq Ahmed Mahesar.

Speaking to journalists at village Muradabad Channa he said that opportunists are endeavouring to reach corridors of power and termed the presidential elections schedule as illegal given the fact that the Supreme Court was considering constitutional petitions on the issue.

He said that President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s re-election as president could multiply miseries of common man.

He said that he started a political movement for rights of Sindh to unite Sindhis on one platform to form an alliance to seek their rights.

He said that the generals had also accepted that provincial autonomy is necessary for the country’s survival. He said that after formation of the alliance people from different walks of life would start a movement.

He said that opportunists wanted power through deal but people of Sindh would not allow them because they had usurped resources of Sindh while people do not have access basic to necessities.

He said that it was time that Sindhis should come out on roads for their rights and this movement would produce results because all stakeholders of Sindh would be contacted and invited to join the movement to save Sindh.

SUICIDE: A 13-year old youth, Raja son of Kamil Panwhar committed suicide in village Ali Hassan Panwhar by taking pesticide due to domestic problem.

He was rushed to civil Hospital Dadu but couldn’t survive.

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