HYDERABAD, July 2: Leaders of different political parties, educationists, lawyers and agriculture experts have demanded that the National Finance Commission should be dissolved and rights of provinces over their own mineral and financial resources should be acknowledged in the Constitution. They were speaking at a seminar organized by the Jeay Sindh Mahaz (Zain Shah group) on “Mineral and natural resources of Sindh and the unjust distribution of financial resources” here on Friday evening.

Noted writer Ibrahim Joyo said when compared to other provinces, Sindh was facing more problems in Pakistan because its mineral and financial resources were being looted and its identity was being distorted due to presence of alien population.

He said there was no guarantee of the rights of Sindhis in the 1973 Constitution.

He demanded that the 1973 Constitution should be shelved and a new social contract be drafted in accordance with the 1940 resolution which envisaged “autonomous” and “sovereign” federating units in Pakistan.

He criticized the division of Sindh into 22 districts and said the bifurcation had been made to ensure success of the government parties in the ensuing local body elections.

Mr Joyo urged the Sindhi nation to unite on one platform and put up joint candidates so that the voice of Sindh should reach the corridors of power.

The former deputy speaker of the Sindh Assembly, Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah, said the resources of Sindh were being looted because it had been deprived of autonomy and sovereignty.