HYDERABAD: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal has asked all factions of the Mohajir community to hold a meeting on the pattern of Pakhtun [Loya] Jirga and decide which way suits them for restitution of their rights.

“If community elders disapproved my way of politics, I will give it up,” he offered.

He said he would not bring any document and would sit in such a jirga all alone. He, however, said the “politics of bodies” should not be restarted as it endangered the whole community, right from Kashmore to Karachi.

Addressing a PSP workers’ gathering in Unit-4 Latifabad on Friday evening, he said that if those who had been seeking vote in the name of Mohajirs were genuinely worried about the community, they should sit together to get their problems solved.

Alluding to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), he noted that they ruled [over urban Sindh] through local government for four years, “but failed to resolve a single problem”. Once again they were raising the demand for a separate province only to hoodwink people, he added.

Had they been “men of character”, Hyderabad’s destiny would have been changed, he argued.

Mr Kamal said that anti-Sindh slogan would benefit Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) alone. He accused the MQM-P of covering up its corruption by raising the slogan of a separate province.

He said he would never raise such a hollow slogan that would hurt the Sindhi-speaking community.

Expressing his confidence that nobody could divide the land of Sindh, the PSP chief alleged that the PPP and MQM-P were in fact playing a noora kushti (fixed match). He also asked the federal and provincial governments to mend their ways.

“PSP will rule over Sindh in future because people from different communities are gathering on its platform,” he claimed.

Mr Kamal told party workers that those raising the slogan of separate province would start presenting caps to each other if they were given two more ministries.

He deplored that PPP, after destroying its own constituency, was now targeting urban centres of Sindh, and alleged that it had ruined Karachi and Hyderabad like it had done with Larkana and Jacobabad. He warned PPP that enmity with cities would cost it very dearly.

The PSP chief predicted that both urban and rural population would reject PPP in near future. No one would be able to foment ethnic riots in Sindh for the sake of politics as Sindh would now have a new “watchman”, he said.

He asked the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) to improve its services or face public wrath.

He said the problems being faced by the masses could be resolved when powers were devolved at the local level under the 18th Constitutional Amendment. He said the powers of cantonment boards and other agencies, including KPT, should be handed over to mayors. The National Finance Commission (NFC) Award should be announced while land regulation should remain with the same agencies, he said, adding that this would resolve 95 per cent problems in the country.

Earlier, Mr Kamal led a rally that passed through different areas of Hyderabad. He also addressed people at Islamabad Chowk and Gaushala Gate.

PSP president Anis Kaimkhani, vice chairman Shabbir Qaimkhani, Ashfaq Mangi and others accompanied him.

Published in Dawn, September 19th, 2020