HYDERABAD, Nov 21: Sindh National Front chief Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has demanded that the Council of Common Interests, comprising leaders of spotless character, should be constituted.

He was speaking at an Iftar party hosted by SNF leader Parial Bughio at his Citizen’s Colony residence here on Thursday.

Mr Bhutto said that only one province was ruling over the country due to the support of army and majority of bureaucrats who belonged to it.

He said that majority was being made basis in each and every matter and wondered why the majority of East Pakistan was not accepted due to which the country was disintegrated.

He said that although Kalabagh Dam would destroy Sindh and prove extremely harmful for NWFP and Balochistan, yet the rulers adamantly wanted to go ahead with the project because it was in the interest of a particular province.

The SNF chairman said that instead of observing protests in Sindh, which had already rejected the construction of dams, the Greater Thal Canal Action Committee should protest at those places where the opinion was in favour of dams.

He said that the country had never been run on the straight path and it would never adopt the correct course because right from the beginning an incorrect system had been imposed on it.

He said during the last 56 years, civilian governments had ruled over the country for a little over two decades and generals during long periods of four martial laws.

Mr Bhutto said that the present rulers had declared that they would improve the system but the destruction wreaked by them was unprecedented.

“What to talk of prosperity, even the lives of the people were not safe,” he said.

Condemning the murders of two children in Larkana, he said that bandits, murderers and police were in league with each other.

He said many places in Sindh had become ‘no-go’ areas which proved inefficiency and incompetence of the government.

The Iftar party was attended by MNA Ameer Ali Shah Jamote, Ibrahim Joyo, Yousuf Leghari and others.