HYDERABAD, Jan 22: The central committee of the Jeay Sindh Quami Mahaaz (JSQM) at a meeting held on Monday strongly criticized Nadra for announcing that those people who had arrived in Sindh five years ago would be given citizenship certificates.

It warned that Sindhi people would resist any such moves. It condemned the influx of Afghans and other outsiders into Sindh.

The meeting also condemned a statement of the secretary, Indus River System Authority (IRSA), throwing aspersions on the chairman of the authority who belongs to Sindh and threatened to stop the water supply to Sindh.

It was made clear in the meeting that the Indus River was the property of Sindh and no one would be allowed to take away its waters.

The acting president of the Mahaaz, Shafi Karnani presided over the meeting.

The meeting warned that if Punjab did not give up conspiracies against Sindh then all communications including providing harbour facilities and transport routes to Punjab would be stopped.

It decided to hold workshops in different towns to impart political training to the workers and appointed a five-member committee headed by the former chairman of the party, Abdul Wahid Areesar, to organize the workshops.

It called upon the party workers to rigidly follow the party constitution and appealed to the Sindhi nation to rise against all anti-Sindh projects.

CONVENER: The convener, Zila Council, and the Naib Nazim, Hyderabad District, Nawab Rashid Ali Khan, has urged the conveners of recently elected committees to work honestly according to the procedure.

He was presiding over the first meeting of the conveners of the sub-committees.

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