HYDERABAD, March 3: The Sindh Unity Council of the Pakistan Oppressed Nations’ Movement has said that all religions and faiths should be respected.

At a meeting held here on Thursday, it observed that no individual or country should be allowed to play with religious sentiments of people of any faith.

It called upon the Danish government to tender an unconditional apology to the Muslims for publishing blasphemous cartoons.

The president of the Sindh chapter of the PONM, Dr Qadir Magsi, who is also the chairman of Sindh Taraqi Passand Party, presided over the meeting.

Maulana Azizullah Bohio, Nandlal Malhi, Rasool Bux Thebo, Akbar Jatoi and Mohammad Khokhar attended the meeting.

Dr Qadir Magsi criticized the policies of the government and said the rulers were destroying the country.

He said the Balochistan issue had become so complicated that it was beyond capability of the present rulers to find any solution.

He said that unless the rulers acknowledged that Pakistan was a multi-nation country and all the nations were guaranteed rights on the basis of equality.

The meeting condemned the arrest and torture of political workers and demanded their immediate release.

It condemned the ongoing army operation in Balochistan and demanded that the crackdown on the Baloch people should be stopped and urged the government to accept exclusive rights of Baloch people on their natural resources.

It opposed the construction of Kalabagh dam, Bhasha, Munda or any other dam or canal on the Indus River and demanded that no dam or canal should be built on Indus without the consent of Sindh.

In another resolution, the meeting demanded that all outsiders who had entered Sindh after 1954 legally or illegally should be expelled from the province.

It demanded that the influx of outsiders from Khokhropar and other routes should be stopped and work permits should be issued to people who were coming to Sindh from other provinces.

The meeting called upon the government to take effective measures to check rising unemployment and hyper-inflation.