HYDERABAD, May 21: Giving a call for a strike on Wednesday, May 22 (today), Qaumi Awami Tehreek president Ayaz Latif Palijo said that the people of Sindh by observing a successful strike would give a befitting reply to those who had stolen the mandate of the people.

Speaking to his party’s standing committee on Tuesday, Mr Palijo said that the people hadn’t given a mandate to the Pakistan Peoples Party or the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, alleging that both parties had been fully supported by the Election Commission, the caretaker government and law-enforcement agencies. He said that the people of Sindh would not tolerate those who had stolen their mandate.

Mr Palijo said that people in Sindh hadn’t voted for the PPP which had carried out massive rigging by stamping ballot papers.

He said that if thumb impressions of voters were verified then their ‘fake’ mandate would stand exposed.

However, he said, the ECP did not take any action despite submission of proof.

He urged the apex court to take notice of rigging by the PPP and condemned the murders of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Zahra Shahid and Sindh National Movement leader Qasim Chandio in Karachi.

He said that the PPP had auctioned off Sindh’s resources.

Under the 18th amendment, he said, all natural resources were given to the federal government. He said that in the past five years, the PPP did not even lift the ban imposed by Musharraf regime on admission of Sindhi students in Karachi’s education institutions.

Inter paper put off in Mirpurkhas

First and second year exams scheduled for Wednesday, May 22, have been rescheduled due to strike announced the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Mirpurkhas, on Tuesday, our Mirpurkhas correspondent adds.

BISE Mirpurkhas secretary Barkat Qureshi said that the board decided to postpone the exams of zoology (I), mathematics (I) and economics (II) after receiving complaints from parents in various districts including Sanghar and Umerkot that they would not send their children to examination centres due to strike.

These exams would now be held on June 7, 2013, said the BISE official.