November 11, 2007	Sunday	Shawwal 29, 1428

LARKANA, Nov 10: The chief of Sindh National Front (SNF), Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, has said that opposition leaders were manoeuvring to find out ways to reach power corridors while the rulers were contemplating to perpetuate their rule.

Addressing a meeting of party workers at Mirpur Bhutto on Saturday, he said that no one was bothered about Sindh’s sufferings and the excesses it faced. Both the opposition and rulers had the same target which aimed at to plunder national exchequer and enjoy power, he claimed.

He alleged that Sindh government had been handed over to ‘killers, corrupts and terrorists and apprehended that Sindh’s sufferings would further multiply when PPP would join enemies of Sindh.

Posing a question, he said what steps those (wishing to rule) would take to stop the plundering of Sindh’s water, revenue rights and take back thousands of acres of land allotted to non-agriculture people and redistribute the same among the actual peasants. Would that forest land, illegally encroached upon by the pro-government landlords and bandits, be recovered from them and what kind of actions would be initiated to break the police-bandit nexus, he asked.

The SNF chief said that district boundaries were readjusted and delimitations carried out to suit landlords sitting on treasury benches which multiplied people’s miseries.

He said that rulers had faced defeat in tribal areas and Swat while the criminals had a grip over rest of the country.

He regretted that the government was arresting only political activists, lawyers and members of the civil society and torturing them in jails which was unjustified. He demanded of the government to release them immediately.