HYDERABAD, Jan 4: Sindh National Party chairman Ameer Bhambhro has given a call for a shutter-down strike in Hyderabad on Jan 6 and urged people to participate in a procession to be taken out that day against the Kalabagh dam and for implementation of the 1940 Resolution.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Wednesday, he said the Kalabagh dam would affect the whole of Sindh and, therefore, all the people and parties should participate in the procession.

He said the purpose of the protest was to draw the attention of the international community to excesses allegedly being committed against the people of Sindh by what he called unconstitutional and undemocratic government.

He said the controversial Kalabagh project had not only been rejected by the people of three provinces but also by assemblies of the provinces. He regretted that the government was insisting on building the dam despite the opposition from the three provinces.

Mr Bhambhro pointed out that the 1940 resolution guaranteed provincial autonomy and sovereignty to the federating units and added that Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his speech in 1947 had also unequivocally declared that no injustices would be committed against any federating unit. He, however, alleged that after the death of the Quaid-i-Azam, the establishment had been usurping rights of the smaller provinces.

He said that on the pretext of eliminating miscreants and terrorists, an army operation had been launched in Balochistan and workers of nationalist parties in Sindh were being arrested and tortured without producing them in courts.