June 15, 2008	Sunday	Jamadi-us-Sani 10, 1429

HYDERABAD, June 14: The PPP leadership is playing in the hands of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) by handing over the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board and the Karachi Building Control Authority to city government, said Sindh Taraqi Passand Party Chairman, Dr Qadir Magsi.

In a statement faxed to Dawn here on Saturday, he said the PPP leadership was being blackmailed by the MQM as was practiced during the Arbab Ghulam Rahim regime.

People had rendered sacrifices to bring PPP into power on hopes of ridding Sindhi people of the racist and terrorist group, said Dr Magsi.

The PPP had disappointed them as to this day, all decisions were being taken at the Governor House, he said.

Nazim Karachi was openly challenging the writ of the Sindh government, he said and questioned as to how such a weak government could protect interests of Sindhi people. He feared the PPP may soon lose Sindh as it lost Punjab due to the absence of an agenda and acumen to assert its authority.

The PPP should choose among Pervez Musharraf and the people; reinstate deposed judges or patch up with dictators; and protect interests of Sindhi people or of MQM, said Dr Magsi.

SPLA: The founder of Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA), Prof Liaquat Aziz has appealed to the Sindh Chief Minister and Senior Education Minister, Pir Mazharul Haq to regularise the services of 863 ad-hoc lecturers on the pattern of Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan and ensure payment of their five months’ salaries.

In a statement faxed to Dawn here on Saturday, he said families of ad-hoc teachers were starving due to the non-payment of salaries.

Male and female teachers had decided to shun by-elections duty of PS-30 because of the uncivilised and overbearing attitude of the additional sessions judge Khairpur and his staff, he said and demand action against it.

College teachers were being threatened to be arrested, said Prof Liaquat Aziz with the warning that they would launch a protest movement if any of them were arrested.