HYDERABAD, Feb 12: The Sindhi Adabi Sangat has threatened to hold protest demonstrations at all district headquarters of the province on Feb 16 if the issue of simple Sindhi paper is not resolved immediately.

In a joint statement issued here on Saturday, organization secretary-general Taj Joyo, Riazat Buriro, Asif Mithianvi and Noor Chakrani said that despite instructions by the Sindh government, students of various colleges associated with Karachi and Mirpurkhas educational boards and of some colleges of the Hyderabad board had been asked to write ‘Urdu paper-I’, instead of ‘simple Sindhi’, in examination forms of class-XI. They said this was unacceptable.

They demanded that the Sindh governor, chief minister and the education minister should direct chairmen of all educational boards to ensure that Urdu-speaking students wrote simple Sindhi in their examination forms of class-XI.

They said Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain had also assured the Sindhi media that he had instructed the governor to ensure that Urdu-speaking people studied Sindhi in class-XI. They wondered why the education minister and the secretary were not issuing clear instructions to educational boards in this regard.

Mr Joyo claimed that some educational boards had prepared model papers of simple Sindhi but had not despatched the same to affiliated colleges.