HYDERABAD, Oct 2: Sindh Taraqi Passand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has condemned the demolition of four Sindhi settlements in Korangi Karachi and accused the Muttahida Qaumi Movement of conspiring to expel Sindhi-speaking people from Karachi by demolishing Sindhi villages.

In a statement faxed to Dawn on Monday evening, he said that whenever political activities gained momentum in the country, the Karachi city government took advantage of the situation and bulldozed Sindhi villages with the help of police. “This is intolerable.”

Dr Magsi said, on the one hand, the Karachi city government was regularising the settlements of outsiders and providing them facilities while on the other, the villages and houses of Sindhi-speaking people were being bulldozed.

The STP chairman claimed that there was not an iota of doubt that the MQM was against the very existence of Sindhi- speaking people. He wondered, why the Sindh chief minister, Sindhi-speaking ministers and advisers and elected representatives were occupying their posts when they could not protect the houses and villages of Sindhis.

He said, ever since the coming into being of the Karachi city government, the life of the Sindhi people of Karachi had been made difficult.

He said the doors of employment and educational institutions have already been closed for Sindhi-speaking people in Karachi.